{"id":936405,"date":"2025-10-07T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=936405"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:56:01","slug":"october-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/october-7-2025-id936405.html","title":{"rendered":"October 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CEI<\/strong> On January 1, 2026, Romania will be taking over the presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) \u2013 the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest said. Under the rotation principle in the organization chairmanship, Romania will be succeeding Serbia, which ends its mandate on December 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2026. According to the Foreign Ministry, \u2018the move reconfirms Romania\u2019s key interest in regional cooperation, good vicinity relations and the process of European accession of the candidate countries, both those from the eastern vicinity, like the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine and the partners in the Western Balkans\u2019. Romania\u2019s priorities during its mandate are to contribute to the process of stepping up the candidates\u2019 EU accession, to make regional cooperation more dynamic with emphasis on connectivity, and step up the political dialogue among the participants and economic cooperation. The CEI is a regional cooperation format, including nine EU members, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and seven EU candidates, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine. Romania hasn\u2019t held the CEI rotating presidency since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAW<\/strong> With 123 yes votes and six abstentions, the Senate in Bucharest endorsed the Digital Age Act, which introduces, for the first time in Romania, the concept of \u2018legal digital age\u2019 which is 16, setting up a clear framework for the minors\u2019 access to online platforms. So, children are going to need parental consent to have their own online accounts, whereas providers will have to apply age detection filters and interdictions to personalized ads for minors. The act will be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies for a decisional vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOOTBALL<\/strong> Romania\u2019s national football side is preparing the games it is going to play this week in Bucharest against the teams of the Republic of Moldova and Austria. Selector Mircea Lucescu has summoned 14 Romanian internationals and 14 players from the national football league. Romania plays a friendly with the neighboring Republic of Moldova on Thursday, and takes on Austria on Sunday in a game counting towards Group H of the preliminaries of World Cup 2026. Bosnia-Herzegovina ranks first in the group with 12 points out five games, followed by Austria with 12 points out of four games, Romania, 7 points out of five matches, Cyprus with four points and San Marino with no points. The winners of the 12 preliminary groups are qualified for the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, whereas the sides on the second positions together with the best 4 winners of the Nations League will go into play-offs to the decide the last four European national sides qualified. Romania\u2019s latest participation in a final tournament was in France in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRAIN <\/strong>A direct train route will become available on October 10<sup>th<\/sup>, linking the cities of Kyiv \u2013 Ungheni and Bucharest. According to the national company CFR, the ticket price on this route is 73.4 Euros and the distance between the two capitals will be covered in 24 hours. We\u2019ll be having more on this after the news.<\/p>\n<p>(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEI On January 1, 2026, Romania will be taking over the presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) \u2013 the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest said. Under the rotation principle in the organization chairmanship, Romania will be succeeding Serbia, which ends its mandate on December 31st, 2026. 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