November 6, 2016

november 6, 2016 Four people were killed and almost 60 injured in a chain collision on Saturday morning on the Bucharest-Constanta motorway.

Chain collision. According to the latest toll, four people were killed and almost 60 injured in a chain collision caused by fog that occurred on Saturday morning on the motorway linking Bucharest to the Black Sea port of Constanta, in the south-east. More than 20 of the people injured, including 7 in serious condition, are still undergoing treatment at hospitals in Bucharest. Around 30 vehicles, including 2 buses, were involved in the collision.


Trade expansion. A centre for dialogue and cooperation in the field of energy will be established next year in Bucharest, the Romanian prime minister Dacian Ciolos said in the Latvian capital Riga at a meeting of heads of government from Central and Eastern Europe and China. The Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang made a number of proposals to expand cooperation with the states in the region. Romania is interested in continuing trade exchanges with China, said Romania's prime minister, adding that his government is waiting for the Chinese side to give concrete signals with regard to the access of Romanian agri-food products on the Chinese market. This would involve the development and diversification of the export of meet and meet products, given that only one single Romanian producer is present on the Chinese market at the moment. Romania is also interested in developing its relationship with China in the area of tourism and there is an opportunity in the near future to introduce charter flights between Bucharest and China, prime minister Dacian Ciolos also said.


Diaspora. The pilot stage of a project entitled Digital Diaspora - A Partnership for Building Efficient and Transparent Cooperation has been launched in Madrid in the presence of the minister delegate for relations with Romanians abroad, Maria Ligor. The project's main goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of digital communication between diplomatic missions and Romanian communities abroad. In its pilot stage, the project will be implemented in five Romanian diplomatic missions and will include training courses given by digital communication experts aimed at identifying the problems and opportunities in the area of online communication with respect to the Romanian diaspora and find specific solutions to address and tap into them, respectively. The project's pilot stage comes to an end in October 2017 and is carried out at Romania's diplomatic missions in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Canada and Australia.


Bulgaria elections. Bulgarian voters are today electing their president from among 21 candidates who are in the race. Parliament speaker Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of the ruling Bulgaria, and the candidate of the Socialist opposition and former Bulgarian Air Force commander, general Rumen Radev, are the favourites. According to opinion polls, Tsacheva may win the first round, but lose in the second to Radev, who has campaigned for closer ties with Russia. Radio Romania's correspondent in Sofia notes that the presidential elections are seen as a vote of confidence for prime minister Boyko Borisov who promised to resign if his candidate doesn't have the highest score in the first round. Alongside the presidential elections, a referendum is also held on a number of electoral changes, which has been largely ignored by the politicians and the media during the election campaign.


Handball. The Romanian men's handball team today face Poland in qualifying Group 2 ahead of the European Championships of 2018. In their first match, Romania defeated Belarus 26:23. Their group also includes Serbia. In other news from handball, the Romanian champions and Champions League titleholders CSM Bucharest on Friday in Budapest lost to the Hungarian side Gyor, 33:25. This is CSM's third consecutive defeat in the Champions League preliminary groups. CSM now have only 2 points from their only win so far, against the Russian side Rostov Don and are on the third position in the group, after Gyor and Rostov and ahead of the Danish side Midtjylland. The three best-ranked teams in each group advance to the main round. 



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