PM Ponta to inaugurate bridge across Danube - Black Sea Canal

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president with the support of his Social Democrat Party, of the National Union for Romania's Progress and of the Conservative Party, will inaugurate a bridge across the Danube - Black Sea Canal on Thursday. Resistance testing has started on Tuesday at the new building in the port of Constanta (southeastern Romania, on the Black Sea shore), funded by the European Union with approximately 190 million lei (1 leu = 0.2256 euros).

The prime minister will be accompanied by Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu and by Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea. They will witness a resistance test with 50 dump trucks on the bridge.

Popescu-Tariceanu and Dragnea, without Ponta, will also inaugurate on Thursday the Ion Creanga Youth Centre in the commune of Tuzla, an event attended by the mayors and county chapter leaders of the three aforementioned parties and by representatives of Popescu-Tariceanu's Reformist Liberal Party, the People's Party Dan Diaconescu, the Greater Romania Party and of the ethnic minorities in Constanta County.

The two officials will also visit the Casino Promenade of Constanta City, recently overhauled; Senator Moga said they will also make 'an announcement' about the restoration of the Casino.

Popescu-Tariceanu and Dragnea will conclude their agenda by a meeting with Constanta businesspeople. AGERPRES