Romania

Roland Garros finalist, tennis player Simona Halep, is to become an ambassador of Romanian sport and will receive a diplomatic passport that was already prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), as soon as she returns to the country, during the first competition hiatus to come, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Titus Corlatean.

The Dracula Medieval Festival that is taking place in Targoviste between June 13-16 has, beside the role of attracting tourists, the role to emphasize historic truth, says the Dambovita County Council Chairman Adrian Tutuianu.

AGERPRES correspondent Aristotel Bunescu reports: Romania has won on Friday 25 new medals (8 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 9 bronze medals) in the European Karate Championship organized by the World Union of Karate-do Federations (WUKF) at the Palace of Sports in Verona.

As such, Romania's medal count reached 28 if we are to add the 3 medals gained on Thursday.

Romanian actor and director Ion Caramitru will host in Sofia the conference titled "Limits of Expectation", as Romania's representative in the Picnic of Freedom in Sofia, an event dedicated to commemorating 25 years since the fall of communism in Europe.

BELGRADE - Danube Competence Center (DCC) representatives presented on Friday the winning projects in a competition titled "Tourism and Biodiversity" aimed at making the best use of the biodiversity potential in the tourist offer of the Middle and Lower Danube River basin.

Energy security, the importance of the nuclear sector, the development of indigenous energy sources, and the energy situation of the Republic of Moldova were some of the topics approached by Romanian Minister for Energy Razvan Nicolescu in his speech at the meeting of the Council of EU Energy Ministers in Luxembourg on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic met on Friday with officers who will assume the duty of military envoys in eight countries in the next few months.

As of this year, Serbia will, for the first time, have military envoys in Brazil, Poland, Angola and the United Arab Emirates, while four officers will take over regular duties in China, Romania, Algeria and Croatia.

Nearly half a million vehicles have run along Danube Bridge 2 connecting Bulgaria's north-western city of Vidin to Romania's Calafat since its launch on June 14, 2013.

The heaviest traffic is recorded in July, August and September, Vladimir Andreev, CEO of the company operating the facility, told Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday congratulated the Romanian women's crew that conquered the gold medal in the epee event at the European Fencing Championships in Strasbourg.

A review of a precautionary agreement between Romania and the IMF and the EU has been put off to November, after the government has drafted its 2015 budget, according to Romanian officials.