Covasna

Monsignor Kovács Gergely was consecrated and installed as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Alba Iulia in a ceremony celebrated on Saturday at the St. Michael Cathedral of Alba Iulia, with dozens of ecclesiastical officials - cardinals, bishops, representatives of the other Churches in Transylvania - attending.

Following the earthquake which occurred at 3:38hrs, the Bucharest-Ilfov Inspectorate for Emergency Situation (ISU) conducted field reconnaissances in order to identify possible damages, taking into account that no calls were made to the 112 emergency number.

Bucharest, Aug 18 /Agerpres/ - The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management issued on Saturday afternoon a Code Yellow for Floods in the Covasna, Brasov and Buzau counties, valid until 11:00 pm.

According to hydrologists, due to the rainfall there is potential local flooding effects and increase in flows and levels of rivers, in the counties of Covasna, Brasov and Buzau.

Acting as decision-making chamber, the Senate rejected on Tuesday by a vote of 96 to 9 the legislative proposal for the autonomy of the Szekely Land.

Romania's Environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu announced on Tuesday that she is to issue a special order this week that would allow the killing of bears and wolves deemed dangerous, despite opposition from activists.

Gheorghe Funar, running for president as an independent candidate, accused the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) - both in the ruling coalition - of having a secret pact.

Romanian MEP Monica Macovei (of the Democratic Liberal Party, PDL) said on Thursday that the minorities' rights, of the Hungarian minority included, are respected in Romania, but an unknown problem is the fact that the Romanians' rights are not respected in Covasna and Harghita counties (central Romania).