Claudia Stanescu

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and members of the Cabinet on Thursday arrived at the Union Monument in Alba Iulia.

"I am glad that the Romanian Government left its mark on this monument that will last for many years and which we inaugurate right now, one hundred years on from the Greater Union. This is a very good thing," said Dancila.

By taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Romania ensures the continuity of the European projects in security and defence, Austrian Minister of Defence Mario Kunasek, on an official visit in Bucharest, said on Monday.

Mario Kunasek met with the Romanian Minister of Defence, Gabriel Les, at the seat of the National Defence Ministry.

The bilateral relationship between Romania and Germany, especially in regard to the German community in Romania and the Romanian community in Germany, as well as the European agenda in terms of Romania's preparations to assume the Presidency of the EU Council were discussed on Friday at a meeting of Romania's President Klaus Iohannis and the German senior federal official in cha

"Romania: Evolution" photo exhibition and the "Greater Union - Romania, at 100" video documentary, made by AGERPRES National News Agency, were presented in Stuttgart on Sunday, as part of the event "Centennial Romania," organised by the EU Reflect Association - association for intercultural dialogue Stuttgart e.V..

Chairman of PES Activists Romania and former Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu said on Saturday in Timisoara that Romania is ready to take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and everything is going as planned.

The legal powers of the minister-delegate for European affairs regarding the representation and management of the General Affairs Council files will be taken over and fulfilled a by another government official, according to an order of the prime minister.

German ambassador in Bucharest Cord Meier-Klodt said on Tuesday that if the European societies allow nationalism and populism to separate by means of fake news, then they "really have a problem, a much bigger problem than sporadic political lies."

Romania's absorption rate of European funds is about 20.3pct, as compared to the EU average of 22pct, EU Funds Minister Rovana Plumb said on Tuesday at Victoria Palace.

Nicolae Grigorescu's painting "Tarancuta cu basma alba" (Peasant Girl with White Headscarf) was sold in the Artmark's Autumn Auction for the sum of 350,000 euro on Wednesday night, becoming the artist's best-selling work, according to a press release of the auction house.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday welcomed the fact that after May 2019 there will be no restrictions on the Swiss labour market on Romanian citizens seeking employment there.

Iohannis welcomed his Swiss counterpart Alain Berset at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.