Bucharest

The Grand Prize of the Jury at the Romanian selection of the "Tres Court-International Film Festival" went to the "Still Alive" short film, by film director Mathe Endre-Botond of Targu Mures, for the accuracy of the animation techniques and the atmosphere created, the event's organizers informed on Thursday.

Photo credit: Festival des Tres Courts Roumanie Facebook page

Germany's Ambassador to Romania, Werner Hans Lauk, said on Thursday that the rule of law doesn't exist without the all-encompassing equality of the citizens before the law, and that without quality journalism, real democracy is not possible.

Director of the CERT-RO National Computer Security Incident Response Team Augustin Jianu believes Romania is faring well in terms of human resources for the protection of personal data stored with information systems, but it is facing a deficit of specific legislation.

The existing excellent cooperation between the Romanian Police and the Moldovan Police and the importance of data and information exchanges between them featured on the agenda of official talks between the two organisations on Wednesday in Bucharest.

Romania's capital city ranks 81st among the 132 most visited cities worldwide and it also climbed one step up to the 28th position among the most visited European cities, according to a survey made public on Wednesday.

"Bucharest ranks 81st in the GDCI 2015 and 28th in Europe, one step up from last year," reveals the MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index (GDCI).

The two Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, Valeriu Zgonea and Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, respectively, assert in a letter to the foreign ambassadors accredited to Bucharest that the current Opposition is attempting to push "the overthrowing of a legitimate government" by using the judiciary as "a tool" to take over power.

France's ambassador in Bucharest, Francois Saint-Paul, said on Wednesday, in the context of the latest political evolutions, that France reasserts its attachment to the observance of the rule of law in Romania.

Secretary of state for European affairs, George Ciamba, on Tuesday discussed with the Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Neris Germanas, currently paying a visit to Bucharest, on matters of a common interest at the level of the European Union, topical issues on the international agenda and also on aspects regarding the current stage of bilateral relations between Romania and Lithuan

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Tuesday evening that the same day he met ambassadors of EU member states as well as diplomatic representatives of the US and Canada in Bucharest to introduce his opinion on the current political state in Romania, adding that he was joined in his meetings by the chairs of the two chambers of Romania's Parliament.

Romania's Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday rejected the request of prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Department, DNA, to investigate Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

There were 231 votes against the request and only 120 in favour, all from the opposition National Liberal Party, PNL.