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Romania will be the host for the first time of the World Dancesport Championship Youth Standard (16-18 years category), to be carried out simultaneously with the World Open Transylvanian Grand Prix, over September 20-22, the last to be hosted by the Dumitru Popescu Colibasi Sports Hall in Brasov (central Romania), according to a release remitted to AGERPRES. This is for the first time in the history of the Romanian dancesport when the World Federation grants Romania permission to organise such an important competition, namely the World Championship. Participating in the event will be athletes from more than 40 countries on
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The parliamentarians in the special commission set up for the gold mining project at Rosia Montana (western Romania) gathered in their first sitting on Tuesday to set the debate schedule. The Culture Ministry and Justice Ministry officials will be heard on Monday, Sept. 23 at noon, with the Environment Ministry, the Major Projects Ministry and the National Mineral Resources Agency representatives to be heard on Tuesday, at 3 p.m. The commission members will travel to Rosia Montana late on Tuesday for two-day talks with the representatives for the miners, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, the NGOs and authorities. The MPs have
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Romania embraces the position taken on the occasion of the meeting in St. Petersburg by the leaders of the eleven countries of the G20 towards the situation in Syria, Romanian President Traian Basescu made an announcement on Monday. ‘Yesterday, Romania adopted a position on Syria and it is my obligation to bring it to the attention of the media and the people, given that it is about a political commitment that Romania made […] Following consultations with other state institutions, we decided that Romania should rally to this Declaration (made on the sidelines of the meeting of the G20 group
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Premier Victor Ponta said on Monday that the draft law referring to Rosia Montana would be included on the agenda of the Senate and rejected and that the same held good for the Chamber of Deputies. Ponta made it clear that he had come to Parliament to make sure that the draft law would be ‘rapidly’ included on the agenda. ‘I have heard the statement made by Mr Blaga and the one made by Mr Atonescu. Things were not quite clear in one direction or another in the Social Democratic Party either, opinions are divided. … I want to make
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The National Liberal Party (PNL) President told a news conference on Monday that the Rosia Montana project cannot be backed up, and he specified he makes the statement strictly in his personal name. ‘I want to make a statement in my own name (…), it affects neither the Senate nor the National Liberal Party. Today, although the talks in the Parliament have not started, I have a firm and finally outlined standpoint about the Rosia Montana project, namely I think the project cannot be endorsed. It should either be withdrawn (…) or rejected. I reached the conclusion not for technical
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The prestigious Staatskapelle of Berlin, conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim, on Sunday evening, in Bucharest, opened the 21st George Enescu Festival with George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D Major, Op 11. The Romanian born pianist Radu Lupu, who was acclaimed on the great international stages the world over, then played Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto No 4 for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, Op 58 and was rewarded with much applause at the end of his out-of-the-ordinary performance. The programme of the concert also included Sir Edward Elgar’s Symphony No 2 in E Flat Major, Op 63. Maestro
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Monsignor Vladimir Ghika (1873 – 1954), a Roman Catholic priest and Romanian prince, was beatified on Saturday, August 31, being declared ‘blessed’ in a Solemn Liturgy presided by Pope Francis’s envoy Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. According to the beatification ritual, after Bucharest Metropolitan Archbishop made the Pontiff’s envoy the request to put Monsignor Ghika among the blessed and presented his biography, Cardinal Amato read the Pope’s Apostolic Letter in Latin. The letter was then read in Romanian: “Fulfilling the request of My Brother Ioan Robu, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucharest, as
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President Traian Basescu has congratulated the Romanians on the Romanian Language Day celebrated on August 31 and has stressed the day celebrates one of the most important symbols of the national identity. ‘We celebrate the Romanian Language Day on August 31, starting this year, a day in which the Romanians and the Romanian speakers from everywhere honour one of the most important symbols of our national identity. Around 30 million Romanian speakers live in the world today and for nearly 25 million of them Romanian is their mother-tongue’, Basescu said in a message. The Romanian leader underscored we have the
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The festival organized at Sapanta by president of the Intercultural Traditions Association Peter Hurley continues this year. According to organizers, the 2013 edition will be named after a local hero – Stan Ioan Patras – creator of the Merry Cemetery in Sapanta. The festival is to be run between August 15-17, under the auspices of Sapanta Town Hall, in partnership with the National Tourism Authority. Seven young musicians from seven countries are to meet for the first time in Romania and will spend seven days together in Maramures. The musicians invited to the first edition of Romania Roots Revival from
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President Traian Basescu, on attending the 11th edition of the Summer University at Izvorul Muresului (central Romania) on Monday underscored there is need for the Romanians outside the country’s borders to show solidarity and stressed Romania proved it can fund programmes aimed at recovering the Romanian spirit. The president called for fairness in presenting the realities and added that very few declare themselves to be Romanian. ‘I exactly feel what is happening with the Romanian communities in all the countries around Romania’s borders: the Vlachs: very few declare themselves to be Romanian, which explains why schools teaching in Romanian cannot
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