Alba County

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) accuses the current rulers of being concerned "only with the internal struggle in the National Liberal Party" (PNL), while floods and havoc have affected several areas of the country, especially the central-western Alba County.

President Klaus Iohannis stated on Saturday in Alba Iulia that we have the duty to show, through what we carry out, that we are "the capable successors of the Greater Union project."

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said at a solemn meeting in Alba Iulia on Thursday that that is "probably the most exciting moment" of the incumbent government, adding that public policies will continue to be implemented in the service the country and to the benefit of the citizens.

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.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and the members of her cabinet will be convening today in a solemn meeting to celebrate the National Day of Romania in the centennial year of the Greater Union of December 1, 1918, in Alba Iulia on Thursday.

The meeting will take place from 10:30hrs, EET, at the Alba Carolina Fortress, the Union Hall, according to the PM's schedule.

More than 100,000 people are expected to gather at Alba Iulia - the flagship city of the Greater Union where the union of Transylvania and Romania was proclaimed 100 years ago - for the December 1 celebrations, city mayor Mircea Hava announced this week, as he presented the official program of the events to take place on Romania National Day.

Bosch Group will open this year in Blaj, where the company has three factories, a research-development centre for automotive technology, with the total number of Bosch employees in the town of Blaj to be over 1,500 by the year's end.

Werner Richter, Bosch Rexroth Romania General Manager
Photo credit: (c) Mircea ROSCA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Romania is participating with a national stand in the International Tourism Fair Ferien - Messe Wien, which is held January 15 to January 18 in Vienna, according to the Romanian Cultural Institute's website.

Romanian folk ensemble pose after performing at the 2013 International Tourism Fair Ferien ? Messe Wien
Photo credit: (c) Isabela PAULESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

President-elect, Klaus Iohannis has arrived at Alba Iulia (north-west of Bucharest), to participate in the official events on the National Day of Romania inside the Alba Carolina Citadel and was greeted with bread and salt, according to the tradition.

Traffic on Highway DN 7C "Transfagarasan", crossing the high Fagaras Mountains in the Southern Carpathians from Bascov (Arges county) to the junction of the Highway linking Brasov to Sibiu (central Romania) is open from July 1 till Oct. 31.