The interim president of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), Sorin Grindeanu, has summoned the party's leading body on August 11 to analyse the "situation created in the governing coalition" after the reformist party USR opposed the decree of a national day of mourning for former president Ion Iliescu. The PSD leader says that the USR's...
Romanian athletes won one gold medal and one bronze medal on Sunday, August 10, at the Under-19 World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania. The gold was claimed by Teodora Lehaci and Denisa Mihaela Vasilică in the women’s pair, with two seconds ahead of the silver medalists from Uzbekistan. The bronze medal was won by the […]
The Roman amphitheater at Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa was officially reopened to the public on Friday, August 8, following a major conservation and restoration project funded by the European Union. The event, organized by the Hunedoara County Council under the name “Open Doors Day,” celebrated the completion of work aimed at preserving and enhancing one of […]
Romanian open-water swimmer Avram Iancu announced Friday, August 8, that he has successfully swum across Europe along the famous Rhine–Main–Danube waterway, from the North Sea to the Black Sea. The 4,448 marathon swimming, completed in three stages over a total of 170 days without a wetsuit, marks what he says is a world first: crossing […]
The construction project for Romania’s second subway network, in Cluj-Napoca, is moving forward with the launch shaft for the boring machines. The Turkish general contractor Gulemark announced that building began for the launch shaft for the tunnel boring machines on August 11. This is the essential underground structure from which the subway galleries will be […]
Interim president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Sorin Grindeanu will face an internal leadership contest after senator Titus Corlățean declared on August 8 that he will run for the party’s top position, Antena 3 reported, quoted by
The interim president of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), Sorin Grindeanu, has summoned the party's leading body on August 11 to analyse the "situation created in the governing coalition" after the reformist party USR opposed the decree of a national day of mourning for former president Ion Iliescu. The PSD leader says that the USR's...
