Alba Iulia

President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday released a message calling for unity among the Romanians before participating in the bicycle march "Pedalam pentru Romania" (Pedalling for Romania) dedicated to the centennial of Romania's December 1, 1918 Greater Union.

Prior to leaving Palatului Square, Iohannis said that it would be good if unity is reached in the centennial year.

Thousands of people protested on Wednesday evening in Bucharest and in other cities against the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code adopted by MPs and chanted slogans against the Government and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) ruling coalition, as well as against social-democrat leader, Liviu Dragnea.

Romanian Catalin Buciuman of Unirea Alba Iulia Sports Club, won a gold medal at the European Equipped Open, Junior and Sub-Junior Powerlifting Championships 2018, which took place May 5-12 in Pilsen, the Czech Republic.

Buciuman benched 195kg in the 74kg category, scoring the best result in the junior competition and thus climbed to number one, becoming a European champion.

A large-scale event dedicated to the Centennial of the Great Union - the meeting "Romania 100 - Diplomacy, Education and Mission" - is organized on Friday in Alba Iulia by "1st December 1918" University in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Romania and Georgia are planning to get to know each other better and to learn more about each other's history, to mark some of the important moments for the two countries and to develop bilateral economic cooperation, Romania's Ambassador to Georgia Radu Liviu Horumba told an interview granted to AGERPRES.

Tunisia, the country where the spark began, which ignited the series of Arab revolutions in 2011, is a window of the Arab world in the Mediterranean space, inseparably tied to Europe through history and culture, is a country that shows that it can walk towards the future, towards modernity, without severing the ties it has to its past and traditions, said Romanian Ambassador in Tunisia Dan Stoe

Representatives of the Romanian language media with the historical communities around Romania visited on Wednesday the headquarters of the AGERPRES National News Agency on which occasion they were presented one of the most important projects of the agency launched this year, the "Great Union - Romania, at 100 years" documentary dedicated to the Centennial.

Romania's CSM Satu Mare won the Central European Women's Basketball League (CEWL) on Sunday, after defeating Germany's BC Pharmaserv Marburg 69-60 (20-17, 21-11) , 12-17, 16-15), at the Dumitru Popescu-Colibasi Sports Hall in Brasov, which hosted the Final Four tournament of the competition.

More than 2,500 people protested last night in some of Romania's big cities against tax changes introduced by the center-left government, as well as against judicial reforms planned by the cabinet, according to Romania Libera newspaper.

The lamb meat dishes cannot miss from the Romanians' table at Easter time, be it sour soup, haggis, stew or steak, the preparation, however, varying from area to area.

Photo credit: (c) Nicolae BADEA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE