July 13, 2019 UPDATE

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TENNIS In a first for the Romanian tennis, Simona Halep on Saturday won the Wimbledon tournament, the third Grand Slam competition this year after securing a two-set victory 6-2, 6-2, against Serena Williams of the USA, one of the world's strongest tennis players who boasts 7 Wimbledon trophies. Halep is the first Romanian to have ever made it to the women's finals of this prestigious tennis competition. Another Romanian, Ilie Nastase, played in Wimbledon men's finals twice, in 1972 when he conceded defeat to Stan Smith of the USA and in 1976, when he was defeated by Bjorn Borg of Sweden. Simona Halep has secured a clear semifinals win against Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, while Serena Williams has outperformed Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic. Halep, a former WTA number one, reaped the Roland Garros trophy last year. She also became a finalist in Paris twice as well as in Australian Open in 2018.


CANDIDATE A congress of the Save Romania Union, an opposition Parliamentary group, on Saturday validated Dan Barna as its candidate for the presidential election this autumn. The National Council of PLUS, an extra-parliamentary political group founded by Romania's former technocratic Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos also convened on Saturday. Ciolos announced the PLUS candidate would be elected through electronic voting by all the party members over July 22nd and 27th. The two political groups are going to hold talks for the designation of a candidate to represent the USR PLUS Alliance. We recall that the USR PLUS election alliance came third in the European Parliament election in May, after the National Liberal Party, the main right-wing opposition party and PSD, number one in the leftist government coalition.


WEATHER In the following 24 hours the weather is going to be cool in Romania and will become unsettled in most of its territory. Heavy rainfalls, thunderstorms and strong winds are expected in most of the regions but for the country's south-east. The highs of the day are ranging between 20 and 27 degrees Celsius.


ENVIRONMENT Romania's capital city Bucharest on Saturday saw the second edition of the march of environmentally-friendly cars, hybrid and electric, which this year was joined by  participants in the We Bike Romania project. These two marches are part of a larger event entitled SMARTICITY, which is campaigning for improving air quality in towns and cities across Romania through the promotion of green transportation. The event was attended by leading figures of Romania's political, sporting and artistic life as well representatives of various NGOs, corporations and diplomats.

(translated by bill)



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