Romania

The largest saltwater lido in Romania was inaugurated on Saturday, June 28, in Praid - Harghita County; the EUR 1.5 ml worth of investment came entirely from the own funds of the National Salt Company.

Premier Victor Ponta said on Sunday in Kandahar, where he attended the ceremony marking the start of the withdrawal of Romanian troops from Afghanistan, that Romania is now a safer country and a partner well-respected by NATO allies thanks to the sacrifice and bravery of the Romanian troops who went on missions in this theater of operations.

Love Is Folly, one of Bulgaria's first international film festivals, is coming to its end Saturday evening in the Black Sea city of Varna.

Mr Morgan's Last Love, a 2013 co-production of Germany, Belgium, the US and France, is the last film to be seen at 19:00 EEST at the Festival and Congress Center where the event has taken place since it started in 1993.

National Liberal Party (PNL) Interim Chairman Klaus Iohannis on Saturday said that the Liberals' objective is winning the presidential elections and coming back at rule.

Former Liberal Chairman Crin Antonescu on Saturday said that the National Liberal Party (PNL) would never give up its name, pointing out that the decisions to be made in the Congress were the responsibility of all party's members.

The Court of Appeals of Bucharest rejected an appeal of Mircea Basescu on Friday, and ordered him to remain in custody up to 30 days. The ruling is final.

Mircea Basescu is the brother of Romanian President Traian Basescu; he is being accused by the National Anti-corruption Directorate of influence peddling.

AGERPRES correspondent Ruxandra Constantinescu reports: Besides building bridges among cultures, translations open gates to civilizations dominated by the force of a given language and to their cultural richness, suddenly making them available to anybody.

Bulgaria has answered back to comments EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele made in a recent interview.

Fuele told EurActiv the accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the EU put the bloc's credibility into question.

In May 2014, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 427.5 thousand or by 18.1% above the registered in May 2013, the National Statistical Institute informs.

Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu underscored that Danube should be a major economic and social development axis of the European continent.