Diana Dumitru

Transylvania International Book Festival (FICT) started on Tuesday in Cluj-Napoca and gathered in the city over 50 publishing houses that will display their book offer throughout the entire week.

The event offers the audience the opportunity to meet Romanian or foreign writers, as well as to attend conferences on literature.

One of the 12 sailors kidnapped Saturday morning on board of the Swiss Glarus off the coast of Nigeria is the marine chief engineer of the ship, a 60-year-old man from Constanta, according to the leader of the Free Trade Union of Romania's Navigators, Adrian Mihalcioiu.

Social Democratic Party (PSD, major at rule, e.n.) leader Liviu Dragnea stated on Sunday evening that there are ministers who "are running away from signature" and announced that there will be talks about a gov't reshuffle in a National Executive Committee (CExN) of the party after the referendum for the revision of the Constitution (due 6-7 October, ed. n.).

European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu called on Romania's Transport Ministry to prepare "mature projects" for European financing.

The Court of Appeals (CA) Alba Iulia on Monday admitted the demand of extradition to the United States of America of the hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, alias 'Guccifer' or 'Little Smoke' his extradition being postponed until he is released on parole or after the serving of the 7-year sentence he has in Romania, reads the website of the said CA.

IRUM Reghin is launching this fall, the year of the Greater Union's Centennial, the first 100 pct Romanian tractor, designed and made by the company's engineers, 15 years from the disappearance of the Romanian tractors' production, on Friday announced Mircea Oltean, the company's managing director.

The official report on the events of August 10 is classified because some of its information regards data that the Interior Ministry (MAI) has requested from other national security agencies, Minister of Internal Affairs Carmen Dan said on Sunday.

AGERPRES National News Agency presented on Thursday in Brasov, Piata Sfatului (Council Square), the photography exhibition 'Romania: Evolution', at the opening of the Libris Brasov Book and Music Festival.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila toured on Saturday the Huawei company stand within the Business Forum organised on the sidelines of the 7th Summit of the China - Central and Eastern European Countries cooperation format ('16+1') in Sofia, according to a release of the Executive sent to AGERPRES.

The National Liberal Party (PNL) hails the "remarkable victory" recorded by the leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (PPDA), Andrei Nastase, representative of the pro-European forces in the Republic of Moldova, in the second round of elections for the mayoralty of Chisinau, according to a press release issued on Sunday evening for AGERPRES and signed by the PNL chair Ludovic Orban.