Cristina Zaharia

As many as 3.78 % of the electors have showed up to the polling stations by 4 pm, according to the data centralized by the Central Election Office (BEC).

The total number of persons who showed up to vote by 4 pm was 692,002 , out of whom 433,760 in the urban area and 258,242 in the rural area.

Bucharest, Oct 6 /Agerpres/ - Citizens from more than 20 non-EU countries, who live in Brasov, are presenting on Saturday, in Piata Sfatului, their countries' traditions and customs, in marking the 6th edition of the Multiculturalism Day.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Saturday paid a visit to the Vrancea County, where she stated that Romania is currently facing a workforce problem, especially when it comes to the skilled workforce, and pointed out that it's important the Romanians working abroad to come back home.

Chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban on Saturday stated in Timisoara that he will go to vote, for the referendum is the most profound form of democracy and the costs shouldn't be an issue when three million citizens initiated the procedure of revising the Constitution and the Parliament adopted it.

Secretary of state with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) George Ciamba on Friday had consultations in Vienna with the Secretary General of the Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Johannes Peterlik, among other topics the two discussing collaboration in implementing and promoting the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.

Problems related to the human resource, bureaucracy and lack of predictability are the most important facing the German investors in Romania, according to the President of the German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry AHK Romania, Dragos Anastasiu.

He participated on Friday in Cluj Napoca in the inauguration of an AHK branch in Transylvania.

Romanian brand "Flori de ie" [Flowers from the Romanian blouse] is set to participate in the Paris Fashion Week over September 28-October 1, which is the most prestigious fashion event in the world, the Romania ia [the Romanian traditional blouse] landing thus for the first time at the Paris Fashion Week, informs a release sent to AGERPRES.

Relations between Romania and Switzerland are showing a positive dynamic and the bilateral political dialogue has intensified over the last year, with the trade between the two countries expanding in the first four months of 2018 and the bilateral trade balance favouring Romania for the first time since 1990, Romania's ambassador to Switerland Vlad Vasiliu told AGERPRES in a recent inte

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Monday stated, related to the case file concerning the intervention of the gendarmes during the August 10 protests, that military prosecutors are conducting an "impartial and effective investigation, without any outside interference."

The General Prosecutor of Romania, Augustin Lazar, on Sunday evening specified that nothing from the message he had posted on Facebook a couple of hours before suggested he wants to put justice above the state powers or beyond them, and that the Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, quoted his words out of context, in order to be able to make his accusations.