Monica Niculescu Qualifies For Second Round Of Miami Open Tennis Tournament
Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu on Wednesday qualified for the second round of the WTA tournament in Miami (Florida), which offers total prizes of $7,972,535, after defeating Kazakh Iulia Putinteva, 6-2, 6-4.
Niculescu secured a cheque of $25,465 and 65 WTA points, and in the second round, she will play against 17th seeded Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia).
Niculescu scored 5-3 in direct games with Rybarikova, against whom she played in February, in Doha. Rybarikova abandoned in the second round, at the score of 6-7 (6), 6-2, 3-0, for Niculescu. (jurnalul.ro)
Fourteen Counties, Capital Bucharest Under Code Orange For Snowfall Fourteen Romanian counties and capital Bucharest will be under code orange for snowfall as of Thursday night until Friday at 3 p.m., the National Meteorology Administration (ANM) announced Wednesday.The counties under the code orange are in the southern half of the country, namely Caras-Severin, Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt, Arges, Teleorman, Dambovita, Giurgiu, Prahova, Buzau, Ilfov, Calarasi, Braila and Tulcea. These counties will also see gusts of winds with speeds of up to 60 km/h.
Counties in western, central and eastern Romania and the southern county of Constanta will be under code yellow for snowfall from Thursday at 15:00 until Friday at 20:00 and will see winds of up to 55 km/h.
The southern and eastern areas of Dobruja region will also see glazed frost.
ANM said that temperatures will be lower by 10 Celsius degrees than the normal ones for this time of the year. (puterea.ro)
Romanian Banking System Faces High System Risk The Romanian banking system faces a high systemic risk which is difficult to manage in what concerns an uncertain and unpredictable legislative framework in the financial-banking sector, with implications on solvency, in 2018, as per a document released by the central bank.Another risk difficult to manage is the increase in financing costs as a result of a rise in interest rates and/or the depreciation of the national currency with negative impact on debtors’ payment capacity, mainly households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The document also speaks about a high systemic risk stemming from a rapid deterioration of investors’ confidence in emerging economies in the context of internal and external evolutions. (jurnalul.ro)
PM Dancila To Send Letter To EC Head Concerning Potential Interferences In Judiciary Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Wednesday said she will send a letter to European Commission head Jean Claude Juncker asking for details about a document dated 2012 that includes a list of people with legal issues.Dancila said she will ask for clarifications on the situations and that she finds it “completely inappropriate and disagreeing with the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism”.
The document presents a list of 21 demands the European Commission made concerning the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) on Romania and one of them focuses on the course of action in cases of corruption revolving around people such as former prime minister Adrian Nastase or former agriculture minister Decebal Traian Remes, among others.
Lower Chamber speaker and ruling party leader Liviu Dragnea argued on Monday that the document might be considered “an act of brutal interference in the Romanian judiciary and even an influence aiming for the conviction of those people”.
The European Commission on Tuesday said the document is part of customary technical exchanges within the CVM. (cotidianul.ro)