{"id":611797,"date":"2023-08-21T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html"},"modified":"2023-08-21T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:55:00","slug":"august-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html","title":{"rendered":"August 21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong class=cms-bold>Meeting <\/strong>&#8211; The Romanian Prime Minister,&#13;<br \/>\nMarcel Ciolacu, is today participating, in Athens, in a working meeting of the&#13;<br \/>\nheads of state and government from South-Eastern Europe and the Western&#13;<br \/>\nBalkans, organized by the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. According&#13;<br \/>\nto a Government communiqu\u00e9, the talks will focus on the development of regional&#13;<br \/>\ncooperation in South-Eastern Europe, as well as on the challenges posed by the&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopments of the conflict in Ukraine on the states participating in the&#13;<br \/>\nAthens dialogue. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,&#13;<br \/>\nand the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, are attending the&#13;<br \/>\nmeeting, along with heads of state and government from the region.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine-The Ukrainian President Volodymyr&#13;<br \/>\nZelensky says he hopes other countries will join Denmark and the Netherlands, countries&#13;<br \/>\nwhich have decided to supply Kyiv with F-16 fighter jets. The Ukrainian leader&#13;<br \/>\nmade the statements at a military air base in Denmark, where he met with the&#13;<br \/>\nDanish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen. Denmark and the Netherlands will send&#13;<br \/>\nUkraine 61 F-16s. It was agreed that the planes would be transferred to the&#13;<br \/>\nUkrainian Air Force in close cooperation with the US and other partners, when&#13;<br \/>\nthe conditions for such a transfer are met. Conditions include, but are not&#13;<br \/>\nlimited to, successfully selected, tested and trained Ukrainian F-16 personnel&#13;<br \/>\nas well as the necessary authorizations, infrastructure and logistics.&#13;<br \/>\nUkrainian pilot training will take place in several NATO countries, including&#13;<br \/>\nRomania.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Athletics<\/strong>-The Romanian athlete Alina&#13;<br \/>\nRotaru-Kottmann won the bronze medal in the long jump event at the World&#13;<br \/>\nAthletics Championships in Budapest, with 6.88 meters, in the final held on&#13;<br \/>\nSunday. This is the best performance in her sports career so far. Alina&#13;<br \/>\nRotaru-Kottmann had already met the entry standards for athletics events at next&#13;<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s Paris Olympics. Also on Sunday, Andrea Miklos qualified for the&#13;<br \/>\nsemi-finals of the 400 m event. The semi-finals take place today. Romania is&#13;<br \/>\nparticipating with 16 athletes, nine women and seven men, in the World&#13;<br \/>\nAthletics Championships in Budapest.  For&#13;<br \/>\nthis competition the Romanian Athletics Federation has set the goal of&#13;<br \/>\nqualifying in three finals.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Baccalaureate &#8211; In Romania, the baccalaureate exam&#13;<br \/>\ncontinues, today, with the written exam in the mother tongue language and&#13;<br \/>\nliterature for the national minorities. The first results will be announced on&#13;<br \/>\nAugust 25, and appeals can be submitted on the same day. The results will be&#13;<br \/>\npublished on August 29. 34,000 candidates registered for the autumn session, of&#13;<br \/>\nwhom 22,600 finished high school this summer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>ARC &#8211; The ARC Camps Program,&#13;<br \/>\ninitiated by the Department for Romanians Everywhere and intended for Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nstudents and young people everywhere, continues until August 28, in 6 leisure&#13;<br \/>\ncenters in Romania. Students and young people from Romania and another 24&#13;<br \/>\ncountries of the world participate, including Albania, Austria, the United Arab&#13;<br \/>\nEmirates, Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Moldova,&#13;<br \/>\nSerbia, Spain, Ukraine. &#8216;We build bridges, build connections and embrace our&#13;<br \/>\ncultural diversity&#8217; this is the message that the Department sends to the&#13;<br \/>\nchildren and teachers on summer vacation this year in the ARC camps. The camps&#13;<br \/>\nare meant to show Romanian children outside the borders what authentic Romania&#13;<br \/>\nis like. The project aims at facilitating interaction and dialogue between&#13;<br \/>\nyoung people from historical communities and young people from the Diaspora,&#13;<br \/>\nincluding through workshops to deepen knowledge of culture, history, geography&#13;<br \/>\nand arts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Festival &#8211; The George Enescu Festival, the largest classical music&#13;<br \/>\nfestival in Romania and one of the most important of its kind in Europe, is&#13;<br \/>\ncoming to Timi\u0219oara, the European capital of culture in 2023. Great ensembles&#13;<br \/>\nof the world such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Fine Arts Quartet, Camerata&#13;<br \/>\nBern, Manchester Camerata and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra will give&#13;<br \/>\nexceptional concerts between September 3 and 20. The first edition of the&#13;<br \/>\nfestival was held in 1958. (LS)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of domestic and international news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[52513,37426,30081,30441,30692,153701,29085,30820],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-611797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-arc","tag-athens","tag-athletics","tag-bronze-medal","tag-festival","tag-george-enescu-en","tag-hungary","tag-meeting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A roundup of domestic and international news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Radio Romania International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88\"},\"headline\":\"August 21, 2023\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\"},\"wordCount\":625,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/stiri-engleza-alb.png\",\"keywords\":[\"ARC\",\"Athens\",\"athletics\",\"bronze medal\",\"festival\",\"George Enescu,\",\"Hungary\",\"MEETING\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Newsflash\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\",\"name\":\"August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/stiri-engleza-alb.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/stiri-engleza-alb.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/stiri-engleza-alb.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Newsflash\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\\\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Homepage\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News and Current Affairs\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Newsflash\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/news-and-current-affairs\\\/newsflash\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"August 21, 2023\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/\",\"name\":\"Radio Romania International\",\"description\":\"Totul despre Rom\u00e2nia \u015fi rom\u00e2ni, \u00een 13 limbi\\\/dialecte!\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88\",\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/author\\\/newsroom\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International","og_description":"A roundup of domestic and international news","og_url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html","og_site_name":"Radio Romania International","article_published_time":"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Newsroom","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Newsroom","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html"},"author":{"name":"Newsroom","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88"},"headline":"August 21, 2023","datePublished":"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html"},"wordCount":625,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png","keywords":["ARC","Athens","athletics","bronze medal","festival","George Enescu,","Hungary","MEETING"],"articleSection":["Newsflash"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html","name":"August 21, 2023 - Radio Romania International","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png","datePublished":"2023-08-21T10:55:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/stiri-engleza-alb.png","width":640,"height":480,"caption":"Newsflash"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-21-2023-id611797.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Homepage","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News and Current Affairs","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Newsflash","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"August 21, 2023"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/","name":"Radio Romania International","description":"Totul despre Rom\u00e2nia \u015fi rom\u00e2ni, \u00een 13 limbi\/dialecte!","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/4a479940371b9fdefd194f561e8a7f88","name":"Newsroom","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/author\/newsroom"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=611797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}