Counties of Romania

The National Meteorology Administration (ANM) on Sunday issued Code Yellow alerts of blizzard, snowfall and sleet for 28 counties, Bucharest included in place starting 10 p.m. on Sunday till Tuesday at the same hour.

Bulgaria and Romania will sign a Memorandum of Understanding to implement feasibility studies on the construction of two new bridges over the Danube River, Transport Minister Nikolina Angelkova said, Tuesday.

The facilities will connect Nikopol with Turnu Magurele, and Silistra with Calarasi, Bulgaria's news agency BGNES reports.

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.

The construction of a third bridge over the Danube River is to cost EUR 200 – 270 M, according to feasibility studies conducted at four places where it could be built.

Elean Gagov, expert at the Ministry of Regional Development, explained Monday that the option of building a rail line and its price tag were to be discussed in the second stage of the studies.

The History of Pharmacy Museum, Romania's first such institution, sits in the city of Cluj-Napoca, at No. 28 Union Square, and holds over 3,000 exhibits dating from the fourteenth century. The Transylvanian city of Sibiu has a similar museum.

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).

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said during a visit to Polovragi, the southern Valcea county on Wednesday that the Government, at its sitting on Thursday will assign the necessary amounts of money to the flood defence works in the counties of Valcea, Gorj and Olt (southern Romania).

The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (INHGA) on Wednesday extended a Code Red alert of floods for rivers of seven counties till Friday afternoon.

More than 300 teams from all over Europe, mostly British, stopped over at least for one night in Sibiu City, central Romania, a mandatory place on the map of the world's largest charity rally, the Mongol Rally, where Romania is represented by two teams - Dracula Khan and Mamaliga (Polenta) Warriors, says Vlad Grigore, one of the Romanians that took part in the rally in 2013.

The Romanian Police on Thursday is conducting 37 searches in two counties and the Bucharest municipality in the homes of members of a criminal group specialising in tax evasion while bringing metals from abroad to sell them in Romania; the damage produced by the criminal operation is estimated at 6 million euros.