August 8, 2015
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Roxana Vasile, 08.08.2015, 12:00
Scorching weather has seriously affected crops in Romania, which are compromised on large areas. Several villages in southern Romania have remained without water supplies and due to its low discharge traffic on the Danube has been affected but has not been completely restricted on the Romanian sector. Access to the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve has been restricted also due to low water levels. Several countries in Europe are also seeing extremely high temperatures and the Romanian Foreign Ministry has already cautioned the citizens who are traveling to Hungary, Italy and Croatia, countries currently under code red alerts with temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius. The Romanians who travel to these areas must get up-to-date information about traffic restrictions on highways and national roads as well as on the railway. Those spending their holidays on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast also need to be informed on the latest road restrictions. Eastern Bulgaria is facing the risk of bushfires. According to the latest weather reports the heatwave will be felt all over Europe next week.
Romanian students are intelligent and willing to learn but apparently lack the patience to study, shows a report carried out by the Education Sciences Institute in Bucharest. Theachers see their students as creative, bold and self-confident but at the same time hyperactive, sloppy and self-centred. They are interested in studying languages but are superficial in study showing more interest in material benefits; at the same time they are vindicative and without respect for adults. They have technical skills showing curiosity particularly for the IT field but are superficial when it comes to reading. Their role models come from their families in 48% of the cases; 11% of those interviewed said that athletes are their models while only 7% chose teachers as role models.
An IMF mission is due to arrive in September in the Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet country with a Romanian-speaking majority the IMF European Department has announced in a letter sent to the government in Chisinau in response to its invitation. The countrys new Prime Minister, pro-European Valeriu Strelet, on July 31st, only a day after being sworn in, called for an emergency visit of an IMF delegation to Chisinau for a new loan agreement that should offset the countrys big budget deficit. In June, the IMF, the World Bank and the EU announced that any financial aid for the Republic of Moldova had been frozen asking among other things for the liquidation of the three banks through which one billion dollars has been siphoned off the Moldovan banking system.
Romanias Navy is organizing a series of events prefacing the Romanian Navy Day traditionally celebrated on August 15th in ports on the Black Sea and the Danube. Among the events staged on this occasion there are workshops and exhibitions, which have on view military technique and various navy-related themes as well the navys educational offer. The events in the military port of Constanta will be attended by Defence Minister Mircea Dusa.
Last night the city of Sibiu in central Romania played venue for a two-day traditional music festival that was attended by 30 thousand spectators. Currently at its 40th edition, the Mountains Songs traditional music festival is an international event that this year has brought together artists from several countries, such as Romania, Ukraine, Cyprus, Serbia, Turkey and Germany.
