George Onea

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said today that, just like President Klaus Iohannis, he wants an administration that is under as little as possible political influence. "I share the President's clear-cut stance on administration. We want an administration where the political factor has increasingly less influence.

The ASTRA documentary film festival will be held this year both outdoors (September 4-13) and online (October 16-25), to ensure the best conditions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, informs a press release sent to AGERPRES on Thursday. "Filmmakers and documentary film lovers will once again enjoy the screenings offered at the Astra Film Festival.

The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority (ARBDD) of Tulcea reported on Monday the presence of ten specimens of flamingo, the most numerous group of this species seen in Romania in the last century.

Another eight persons infected with the novel coronavirus have passed away in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,334, on Monday announced the Strategic Communication Group (GCS).

Culture Minister Bogdan Gheorghiu said on Tuesday in Sinaia, that the Peles Museum is an emblematic Romanian culture heritage site, pointing out that it is the museum that draws the highest revenues in the country. "It was very important to open the Peles Museum. (...) The Peles Museum (...) lives exclusively from its own revenues. It draws the highest museum revenues in the country.

Group Renault announced on Friday it was suspending planned capacity increase projects in Romania and Morocco as part of a plan to reduce fixed costs globally. According to a press statement released by the French group, the objective of reducing fixed costs by more than 2 billion euros over 3 years aims to restore the group's competitiveness and ensure its long-term development.

Bucharest, May 16 /Agerpres/ - Another 13 persons infected with the novel coronavirus have died in Romania, the number of deceased from this cause reaching 1,094, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Saturday. The dead are two women and 11 men, with ages between 52 and 87. All the deceased suffered from other diseases.

Bucharest, May 16 /Agerpres/ - Over 100 persons are protesting on Saturday, in Victory Square, in front of the Government building, against the measures adopted by the Government to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The gendarmes present distributed flyers to the protesters on the topic of infection with the novel coronavirus, said, for AGERPRES, representatives of the Bucharest Gendarmerie.

Interim Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Marcel Ciolacu has announced on Friday that the party he leads will file a complaint with the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) against President Klaus Iohannis for "incitement to hatred based on the spreading of false information," following the statements regarding the draft law on the autonomy of the Szeklerland.

Health Minister Nelu Tataru said on Monday in Galati that precautions and social distancing must be further kept in place, because "we still have three weeks ahead" of an upward trend of the coronavirus pandemic statistics.