Cluj-Napoca

President of UMDR's (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) Women Organisation on Saturday stated that among the eligible candidates of this party for the European Parliament there must be at least one woman.

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.

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.

Romania's male tennis team leads Poland's 2-1, after the pair of Florin Mergea/Horia Tecau won to the noted couple made of Lukasz Kubot/Marcin Matkowski 7-5 4-6 6-3 on Sunday at the western Cluj-Napoca Polivalent Hall in the third round of the Group II of the Europe-Africa zone of the Davis Cup.

More than 5.2 million arrivals were registered in the Romanian tourist accommodation units in the first six months of this year, up 4.1pct compared to the same period of last year, 75.8pct being arrivals of Romanian tourists, according to the data released by the National Institute of Statistics on Friday for AGERPRES.

Most of the Romanians choose to travel in weekend to national destinations, mainly to visit as many places as possible and due to the lack of time, and not only because of financial reasons, a tourism consultant Traian Badulescu told AGERPRES.

President Klaus Iohannis paid a visit on Sunday to the Oncological Institute of Cluj-Napoca (IOCN) and he was particularly interested in the patient care methods and the research within the medical unit.

President Iohannis' visit to the IOCN lasted approximately 35 minutes and he didn't want to make any press statement.

Mathematics and subjects of the Science category are essential in the curricular construction, even during early education, President Klaus Iohannis stated on Sunday, at the opening of the 59th edition of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).

A few thousand spectators attended the opening of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in the northwestern city of Cluj-Napoca, this year in its 17th edition, on Friday evening where a documentary short film about recently deceased anti-communist dissident Doina Cornea ran, as a tribute to one of the city's most famous personalities.

Romanian anti-communist dissident Doina Cornea, one of the country's most vocal human righst and democracy activists, died on Friday, aged 89, her family announced.

Cornea was born in 1929 in Cluj Napoca and was French literature professor at the Cluj Napoca Babes Bolyai University.