The local currency, the leu, is not the target of a speculative attack whatsoever and its quotation is affected only by external factors that include the extreme caution of investors, Adrian Vasilescu, advisor to the governor of National Bank of Romania (BNR), told Agerpres.

The Economist's cartoonist Kavin Kallaugher, known by his alias KAL, on Tuesday opened in Bucharest an exhibition of nearly 50 works, at the National Museum of Contemporary Arts inside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest.

President of the European Court of Justice Vassilios Skouris will pay an official visit to Romania on May 16-20, on the invitation of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ).

Foreign Minister Andrei Marga reiterated in discussions with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Bucharest, Johannes Hendrik Mattheus van Bonzel, Romania's objective to join the Schengen area at the JHA Council in September 2012 and emphasized the openness of Bucharest authorities to cooperate with the Dutch side in this respect.

A temporary exhibition called 'Dobrogea. The imprint of time and man between earth and sea,' the outcome of cooperation among various Romanian and French research centres and institutions, will showcase, May 18 - July 15, the rich heritage of the Romanian province of Dobrogea as resulting from scientific cooperation between Romania and France in areas such as archaeology, geology and biodiversity protection.

Romania has implemented all the projects meant to strengthen security at the external borders and at present, it fulfills all technical criteria to join the Schengen Area, said Minister of Administration and the Interior Ioan Rus at the meeting with the delegation of the Commission for European Affairs of the French Senate, headed by Simon Sutour.

Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, the cousin of the Great Britain Queen, together with his son, walked, in a typical English rain, on the muddy village lanes of Sibiel, in 'Marginimea Sibiului' (northwest of Bucharest ), where they were received, in front of the church still, with home made plum brandy 'tuica', after which they feasted on Sibiu cheese, bacon, sausages and cabbage meat rolls 'sarmale' at a boarding house above the river Sibiel, where you can fish for trout.

Former ethnic German journalist Rudy Kamla is the first Sibiu local to die from several complications, among which paralysis and blindness, after having been bitten by a tick four years ago, director of the Local Labour Inspector's Office, Francisk Torok, a friend of the victim, told Agerpres.

Monsson Group has sold its 108 MW Crucea Nord wind farm project in Constanta County, to Germany's electricity producer STEAG GmbH.

Premier Victor Ponta said he was sure that his Government would be able to apply a differentiated tax quota, ranging between 8 percent and 12 percent, for people on low incomes, starting in 2013, if the Social Liberal Union won the parliamentary elections.