Sibiu City

Romania has the second largest area of forests registered with the UNESCO World Heritage Forest Programme after Ukraine, Romania's Minister of Waters and Forestry Ioan Denes told an international World Heritage Beech Forests workshop hosted by Sibiu City on Thursday.

Romania is prepared to organise on May 9 2019 the informal Summit of the heads of state and government, in the context of our country exercising the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, shows a press release on Monday remitted to AGERPRES by the Sibiu City Hall.

More than 7,600 Sibiu City people and tourists visited this Easter the Dumbrava Sibiului Museum, Romania's largest open-air museum, with many of them having attended the Resurrection church service there, according to the museum's spokesman Cosmin Calinescu.

Photo credit: (c) ROMULUS BRUMA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Romania's National News Agency AGERPRES on Monday in Baku signed a memorandum of understanding on news exchange with the AzerTAc news agency of Azerbaijan.

Signing the document on behalf of AzerTAc was its General Director Aslan Aslanov, while AGERPRES General Director Alexandu Giboi signed on behalf of AGERPRES.

President-elect Klaus Iohannis will step down as mayor of Sibiu City on Tuesday, December 2, the City Hall informed.

Klaus Iohannis has been serving as Sibiu mayor since 2000.

Presidential contender of the alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC), incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, on Wednesday evening said at B1 TV private television channel, while participating in a debate with opponent Klaus Iohannis, presidential endorsee of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL

In an interview to AGERPRES, Senate Chairman Calin Popescu Tariceanu, an independent presidential candidate in the November 2 presidential election, talks about his project called 'Romania, Europe's Seventh Economic Power,' arguing that the coalescence of the decision makers around a national project is lacking, with the political class being many times out of touch with the publi

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 Mongol Rally, the world's largest charitable rally, is this year crossing Romania, through Sibiu and Vama Veche, where the participants will be treated to two parties on July 24 and July 25, organisers report in a press release sent to Agerpres.

Klaus Iohannis on Monday said resigned his office of first deputy chairman of the opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) and his position on the PNL Political Bureau.