{"id":611723,"date":"2023-07-15T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/july-15-2023-id611723.html"},"modified":"2023-07-15T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:55:00","slug":"july-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/july-15-2023-id611723.html","title":{"rendered":"July 15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Resignation. <\/strong>The Official Gazette published the decrees signed by
\npresident Klaus Iohannis taking note of the resignation of Gabriela Firea as
\nminister of family, youth and equal opportunities and appointing the minister
\nfor research, innovation and digitalisation Bogdan-Gruia Ivan as interim. The
\nSocial Democrat Firea on Friday resigned amid an ongoing scandal about the
\nabuses committed at retirement homes run by people from her entourage. Prime
\nminister and leader of the Social Democratic Party Marcel Ciolacu said he
\nappreciated what he described as Firea’s voluntary gesture to tender her
\nresignation. On Thursday, another Social Democrat minister, Marius Bud\u0103i,
\nresigned as labour minister as irregularities were uncovered in the system for
\nthe protection of elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Deputy prime
\nminister Marian Neac\u015fu took over his post temporarily. <\/p>\n

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Strike.<\/strong> An airport strike in Italy is today causing disruptions to over a
\nquarter million travellers, including Romanian. The trade unions of airport ground
\nstaff started the strike action over failure to renew the employment contracts,
\nwhich expired six years ago. According to Radio Romania’s correspondent in
\nRome, the authorities have criticised the trade unions’ strike, which occurs
\nduring the busy summer holiday, while consumers’ associations call for air
\nstrikes to be banned during summer. Out of the 30 flights from Italy to Romania
\ntoday, only 12 were scheduled before the strike and were thus not disrupted.
\nThe rest will see delays. A strike was also announced in the UK, at Gatwick
\nairport, the country’s second largest in terms of number of travellers. <\/p>\n

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Ukraine. <\/strong>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky
\nwarned his people that Russia is deploying every possible resource to stop the
\nUkrainian counteroffensive in the east and south of the country. We must all
\nunderstand very clearly that the Russian forces are doing everything they can
\nin order to stop our soldiers, said Zelensky in his midnight address after
\nmeeting the top commanders of the army and the intelligence services. He said
\nevery kilometre re-conquered, every success of every combat brigade deserves
\ngratitude. The commander of the Ukrainian forces in the south, general Oleksandr
\nTarnavsky, said his troops are systematically driving the enemy out of their
\npositions and that Russia had lost at least 200 soldiers in the previous 24
\nhours. The Russian defence ministry said in its daily report that the Russian
\narmy repelled 16 Ukrainian attacks on the eastern front. <\/p>\n


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Smuggling. <\/strong>The Romanian Coast Guard police together with customs workers
\nfound 41,000 bottles of counterfeit perfume in a container in the Black Sea
\nport of Constan\u0163a that arrived from China. According to a statement from the
\nBorder Police, if sold on the market as genuine products, they would have
\nbrought in almost 2 and a half million euros. The container shipped from China was
\non its way to a company registered in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

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Moldova.<\/strong> Ecaterina Casinge, the head of cabinet for Moldova’s president
\nMaia Sandu will next month become the spokesperson for the European Council
\npresident Charles Michel, according to politico.eu, quoted by Radio Chi\u015fin\u0103u. The European
\nCouncil said in a statement that Michel’s current spokesperson, Barend Leyts,
\nwill become director of communications for Belgian prim prime minister Alexander
\nDe Croo. Ecaterina Casinge was appointed Maia Sandu’s head of
\ncabinet in July last year. She has a degree in economics and a masters degree
\nin international political relations and communication. Earlier, she worked for
\nthe Romanian MEP Siegfried Muresan. \n<\/p>\n

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Handball.<\/strong> Romania will play Portugal on Sunday for the bronze medal at
\nthe European Women’s Under-19 Handball Championship hosted by Pite\u015fti and
\nMioveni, in southern Romania. Romania on Friday lost to Hungary in the
\nsemifinals, 34-26. The winner of the previous two European under-19 titles,
\nHungary dominated most of the match, but Romania did manage to take the lead
\ntwice in the first half. In the final, Hungary will be facing Denmark, who
\ndefeated Portugal in the other semifinal 38-35, after extra time. Romania has
\ntwo European Under-19 Championship titles, from 1998 and 2000, while the last
\ntime it won a medal was in 2007, when it came in third. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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