Bucharest

Bucharest General Mayor Nicusor Dan stated on Thursday that UEFA thanked the Romanian authorities for the way in which they organized in Bucharest the four matches of the 2020 European Football Championship and appealed to sport, cultural or music event promoters to use the National Arena. "As you know, we are in the final days before the handing over of the stadium from UEFA to the city.

A living statue dressed in golden clothes and depicting Prime Minister Florin Citu was unveiled in Bucharest on Wednesday in Victoriei Square as part of a protest action staged by Greenpeace Romania amidst Romania's governmental coalition discussing how to manage placing the Rosia Montana site on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.

The 'Magic Summer' international classical music festival is back with 11 extraordinary concerts that will take place between July 7 and August 19 at the Great Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum, a release informs.

One of the injured in Friday's explosion at Petromidia who sustained burns on 45% of the body has been flown by a SMURD Constanta rescue helicopter to the Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, and the SMURD Bucharest helicopter left for Constanta to take over a second injured, with burns on 25% of the body, senior emergency management official Raed Arafat said on Friday.

Two burn victims in the explosion at Petromidia Refinery on Friday will be transferred from the Constanta County Emergency Clinical Hospital to the Bucharest Emergency Clinical Hospital (Floreasca), according to Health Minister Ioana Mihaila.

The number of construction authorizations issued for residential buildings increased by 52.2 pct in May, compared to the same month of 2020, but decreased by 0.4 pct over the previous month, shows the data published on Wednesday by the National Institute for Statistics (INS).

Mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan stated, on Tuesday, that, by organizing the European Football Championship, Bucharest has proven that it can organize large scale events. "It's a pride for Bucharest, it's a pride for the Municipality that we managed to be up to the standards of a competition of this level, followed probably by over one billion persons at the global level.

The French Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, told a Monday's press conference that she hopes to bring good luck for the French footballers in the match versus Switzerland in the round of 16 at EURO 2020, taking into account that it takes place in Bucharest, the city where she was born.

Under the suggestive title Stadioane de cartier, Romanian for "neighbourhood stadiums", a series of tours around Bucharest organised by the online publication CORNER football+society take participants to the vestiges of a bygone era in which football was a key part of the lives of millions under the iron-fisted rule of the Communist Party.

Bucharest Prefect Alin Stoica underlined on Wednesday that the intervention plan in case of an earthquake must be as well structured as possible. "Starting three months ago, when I took office, I have been interested in this aspect, I even had a meeting with Mr.