Weekly overview in pictures: School year start | Blue Air cancels flights | Tour of Romania | Sibiu Guitar Meeting

Last week saw the start of the school year, with a revised structure, and the mayhem brought about by low-cost carrier BlueAir's announcement it was suspending flights departing from Romania. At the same time, the cycling event Tour of Romania and the festival Sibiu Guitar Meeting held this year's editions. More of the September 5 – September 11 week's highlights in pictures below.

The school year that kicked off on September 5 came with a host of changes. It will no longer be divided into two semesters but into five learning modules, alternating with five holidays. The end-of-semester exams (teze) will no longer be compulsory, and instead of semester GPAs, there will only be a yearly GPA.

Hundreds of passengers were left stranded after low-cost carrier Blue Air announced it was suspending all of its flights departing from local airports. The carrier said it was forced to take this decision after the Environment Ministry blocked its bank accounts, thus being left unable to pay its operating bills. In the meantime, the company rescheduled its debt and said it was planning to resume flights on October 10. To offer solutions to those stranded abroad, the authorities started using Tarom planes to bring them home.

Hungary's president Novak Katalin paid an official visit to Romania, the first of a Hungarian president in 12 years. It was an opportunity for the Hungarian president and Romania's president Klaus Iohannis to discuss topics such as the investments carried out by Hungary in Transylvania communities with a majority of Hungarian ethnics and the situation in Ukraine. In a statement following the meeting, the Hungarian president also expressed Hungary's support for Romania's Schengen accession.