Bucharest

Independent candidate in this Sunday's presidential elections, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Thursday that a 'new player' has joined the electoral campaign, namely the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), which he says has 'confused' the voters by its actions.

Romanian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin and Chinese counterpart Han Changfu paid a working visit to the Black Sea port of Constanta (southeastern Romania) on Thursday alongside a delegation of Chinese business executives.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta visited the ArcelorMittal ironworks in Hunedoara (northwest of Bucharest) on Thursday. He declared the management told him the company will close this year on a profit.

Political consensus is necessary in several key areas after the presidential elections, says Hunor Kelemen, the candidate of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR).

The public transport in Sofia is the cheapest, compared to the other EU capitals, shows a Belgian survey, quoted by the BTA wire service.

Most expensive is the transport in Copenhagen - a 24-hour card costs EUR 17. Next is Stockholm - EUR 12.

In Sofia the same card costs EUR 2. In Bucharest the price is EUR 3.6 and in Athens - EUR 4.

BUCHAREST - Ministers of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries met in Bucharest Wednesday to discuss agriculture cooperation and topics for an upcoming summit that they will attend in Belgrade in December.

A 33-year-old man from Galati (north-east of the Capital), who on Oct. 18 had returned home from Equatorial Guinea, a country hit by Ebola epidemic, was urgently taken to Bucharest Victor Babes Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases on Tuesday.

Liberal head Klaus Iohannis, running for president of Romania in this Sunday's polls, said on Tuesday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not come to Romania for the electoral campaign, as having been circulated, but she will visit Bucharest after he becomes president.

Romanian Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles competition of the ATP Valencia Open, defeating the pair Kevin Anderson (South Africa) / Jeremy Chardy (France) 6-4, 6-2 in the Sunday final.

Teodor Melescanu, running for president as an independent candidate, says ostensible judiciary actions during the campaign have prevented the candidates from presenting their programmes.