Meteorologists say spring will draw near only over the last days of March. On a short term, bad weather will go on along this week. Highs will generally range between 0 and 8 degrees C, while rain, sleet and snowfall are back on Wednesday. According to meteorologist Dumitru Balta, quoted by daily “Adevarul,” such phenomena are normal at the beginning of a transition season, like spring. “Even if snowfalls and low temperatures are not too pleasant for us, snow is very good for vegetation. The trees continue to hibernate and aren’t in any danger of freezing because of the cold mornings, with hoar-frost specific for spring,” weather specialist explains. Normal or not these phenomena in the beginning of spring, in Harghita the temperature dropped yesterday morning to 21 degrees C below freezing at Joseni, Mediafax informs. But, today and tomorrow, snow and rain fall give us a break. According to Ion Sandu, director of the Meteorological Administration,...

Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Department (DIICOT) chief prosecutor Codrut Olaru said Omar Hayssam is ‘alive’ and prosecutors are currently working on a weapon smuggling case involving the Syrian national. In a Friday’s special session where DIICOT presented its activity report for last year, Olaru said he could not reveal too much information on Hayssam, as the case is still under investigation.

When asked why enquiries last this long, Olaru said the file was initially handled by ex prosecutor Ciprian Nastasiu, and that now it is in the care of another investigator who has to get acquainted with the file. Hayssam was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of terrorism, for orchestrating the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005. In 2006, he was held in custody for several months, but was released on medical grounds, at Nastasiu’s request. He fled the country and has been sought ever since. He is currently believed...

After the Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI), the turn has come for the Ministry of National Defence (MoD) to present its activity report for 2009. Alongside Defence Minister Gabriel Oprea, President Traian Basescu also attended the event.

2009 was not very good for the army. The human losses in Afghanistan, the arms robbery at Ciorogarla and the insufficient financing are just a few examples. Apart from these, Minister Oprea also brought in discussion on Friday the way Romania fulfilled its commitments to NATO and the EU and how it optimized the defence capacity. According to the minister, all these aspects have been influenced by the insufficient funds.

“In terms of operational capacity, the central structures of the Defence Ministry have been resized and reorganized last year, reaching a 20 pc reduction of the number of posts, while 121 units and large units went through structural changes,” Oprea said, quoted by Mediafax. To increase the...

FBI and the Romanian Police took in custody over 100 Romanians involved in IT fraud over the past 18 months, FBI director, Robert Mueller, told a press conference held in San Francisco on Friday. Also, Mueller nominated Romania as one of US federal police’s best partners.

“Four years ago, several American companies threatened to suspend IT connections with Romania because of piracy operations originated in that country. Today, Romania is one of our most powerful partners,” Mueller said at the RSA Cyber Security conference, according to a transcript published on the FBI site. He recalled that the FBI has over 60 bureaus around the world, but also special agents closely working with police forces in Romania, Estonia or the Netherlands.

Last May, 20 Romanians were charged with identity theft and card cloning felonies in the United States. Suspects belonged to an international network and were tracked down with the help of the Romanian...

Historian Marius Oprea told news website cotidianul.ro that he plans on sueing the government for having him fired as head of the Communist Crimes Investigation Institute almost two weeks ago. Oprea said he does not want to sue the government to get back his position, but to prove that he was fired through an abusive action, “in a Stalinist-type act that respects neither the law nor elementary rule of law principles.” The government decided to replace Oprea after ordering a merger of his institute with the Institute of Romanian Exile Memory. The move came after two months in which Oprea repeatedly accused the government of wanting to sack him just because he is a member of the opposition National Liberal Party. Moreover, he directly accused historian Vladimir Tismaneanu, who headed a presidential commission in charge of probing communist crimes, of wanting to take his place at the institute by any means. Tismaneanu was indeed named successor to Oprea. “I am not...

The Pitesti Court of Appeals will rule today over the appeal filed by Craiova Mayor Antonie Solomon, who was arrested in a case of corruption. Last Friday, judges postponed until today the mayor’s request to be set free, because his lawyers could not attend the court session. According to Solomon’s advisor, it was the lawyers who asked for the delay, because they did not have enough time to prepare the defence. Meanwhile, the Arges County Tribunal justified its decision to send the mayor behind bars. According to judges, Solomon gives a negative example to the society and the deeds he is accused of represent “a real defiance of the rightful order.”

Commission fees

The Arges Tribunal also wrote that the mayor’s phone conversations clearly prove he received commission fees from the owner of FC Arges football club, Cornel Penescu, in order to issue a construction licence for a new ‘Pic’ supermarket in Craiova. According...

Copenhagen authorities say that ever since Romania joined the European Union in 2007, criminality problems posed by Romanian citizens have increased significantly, Realitatea TV reports. Romanian top crime rate charts in Denmark, according to a Danish police spokesperson quoted by local media. Ove Dahl, the officer who led the investigation against Marian Clita, suspected of having killed a flight attendant in a Copenhagen hotel, said that “Romanians have no scruples” and they “would kill you for (…) EUR 15.” The statement was printed on the front page of daily ‘Politiken’ and then taken over by several other Danish publications.

Dahl also said that Romanians come first when it comes to thefts, burglaries and other kinds of offences. Moreover, a third of prostitutes in Denmark come from Romania, the police spokesperson said.

His comments came as last week, it was revealed that Clita, a now famous killer after beating...

Two people died and several were injured at the end of last week, in two labor incidents. Yesterday, in Popesti-Leordeni, one man was electrocuted and died, and two other were injured after touching a high-voltage line. The incident occurred while the men were vehicle-operating a metallic scaffolding within the Bifa factory courtyard. The driver was instantly carbonized and the two vehicle passengers helping with the scaffolding move, suffered severe injuries, according to Ilfov police info. The two surviving men were sent to Bucharest’s Bagdasar-Arseni hospital. The accident is currently being investigated by the Labor Protection Service.

Another serious incident occurred on Friday, in Bucharest’s newly opened Sun Plaza mall, when three men fell within an elevator shaft. One 30 year old man died and two other were sent to hospital. A labor protection team’s first investigation showed the men were all employees of the company administering the mall, and were...

Multiple road crashes took place during the weekend. Thus, according to Antena 3, Highway A1 Bucharest-Pitesti was blocked by a road crash that involved a lorry. The crash took place at kilometer 40 on the lane towards Pitesti.

The lorry skidded and blocked traffic for almost an hour. Another crash, this time far more serious, took place in Suceava County where four people were killed after the car they were traveling in smashed into a tree. The crash took place on Friday afternoon on National Road 2, close to Berchisesti commune, Mediafax informs. The driver wanted to overtake another vehicle but his car skidded.

In Sibiu a person was killed and six others were injured on Friday after two cars collided on National Road 1, near Saliste locality. Four of the persons injured are in a serious condition.

Based on the initial investigations it seems that the driver that lost his life in the crash was the one that caused it. Also on Friday, six persons were...

Twenty-five pupils from Targu Jiu’s “Tudor Vladimirescu” National College’s represented Romania at “Euroscola” international contest. The best pupils from Targu Jiu obtained the first place at a contest of the European Parliament from Strasbourg, outrunning 24 participating teams daily “Adevarul” reports. “I am delighted and overwhelmed with this performance. It was rather tiring, we worked a lot, but it was worth doing it, because we are the first,” coordinating teacher Elena Veltan said.

The pupils from Targu Jiu presented all the themes in five foreign languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The jury appreciated their multiple linguistic skills, their knowledge in connection with European themes, their arguing capacity, the team spirit, and the abilities of leader.

The 10th to 12th grade pupils had to elaborate on six themes: boosting Europe, environment and energy protection, the...

According to ‘Evenimentul Zilei’ daily, a new animal protection and rescue service could start operating in Bucharest as of April 30. Arguing that for years the Bucharest authorities have vainly wasted funds running into hundreds of millions of Euros in an effort to solve the stray animals’ issue, General Mayor Sorin Oprescu has decided to shut down the Authority for the Supervision of Stray Dogs that was subordinate to his office.

According to a draft Council decision that will be put up for public debate starting on April 30, the Authority should be replaced by an institution ‘at international standards.’ The latter would be tasked not only with ‘counting’ and monitoring stray dogs and cats in Bucharest but also with offering free emergency medical assistance for all the domesticated animals and pets in Bucharest: horses, cows, monkeys, iguanas, snakes and turtles.

Basically, apart from identifying, neutering and...

Constanta mayor’s Nazi insignia file, reopened

Constanta Mayor Radu Mazare told a press conference yesterday that prosecutors reopened an investigation against him on charges of using Nazi insignia in public, after he took part in a fashion show dressed as WWII German officer last year. Mazare explained that although prosecutors initially decided not to press charges against him, the case was reopened after the leadership of the Constanta Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office was changed.

The mayor charged that the new chief prosecutor, Adina Florea, wants to put him in jail and decided to continue inquiries against him, although he officially apologized for his gesture. Moreover, he said the prosecutor set up a rogatory commission to ask the Israeli state whether it took offence in Mazare’s use of Nazi symbols. “To set up a rogatory commission on this level for this kind of nonsense, the state spends a lot of money. Moreover, Israeli...

Turkish ship sinks near Constanta

A Turkish flag ship loaded with scrap iron sank near the Port of Constanta yesterday, Mediafax reports. Wednesday morning at about 4:30, the ship started to lurch. Two other vessels were sent to the area to rescue the ship, but failed. The 17 sailors onboard were rescued. No one knows for sure what caused the distress, but two options are being considered: adverse weather conditions or the wrong loading of the vessel. The port authorities opened an investigation to determine the cause of the shipwreck.

First autumn day brings first snow in the Retezat Mountain

The first autumn day of the year has also brought along the first snowfall of the season. It snowed in the Retezat Mountain (Hunedoara County) on Wednesday, with air temperatures dropping massively below what it is considered as normal for this time of the year, Agerpres informs. “The coat of snow was 7 to 10 cm thick at 2,000 metre altitude. But this...

During talks with European Commissioners Viviane Reding (Justice and Fundamental Rights) and Cecilia Malmstrom (Internal Affairs) in Brussels on Tuesday, French ministers defended their controversial crackdown on the Roma minority, insisting that repatriations fully comply with European law.

France has been facing mounting criticism for its decision to demolish illegal nomad camps and repatriate Roma to their countries of origin, mostly Romania and Bulgaria, with left-wing opposition, international human rights groups, EU officials and the UN human rights body voicing concern about the measures.

“I explained the principles on which we acted,” said French Immigration Minister Eric Besson in Brussels after meeting Reding and Malmstrom. “Everything is in total conformity with European law, the 2004 [freedom of movement EU] directive, French law and the republican principles of France,” he said, quoted by ‘The Guardian.’ He added that no collective expulsions were...

Having assembled the fossilised skeleton of what they believed to be a velociraptor, scientists were surprised to discover in Romania a new species of carnivore dinosaur that lived in Europe 70-80 million years ago, according to a study published Monday, cited by AFP. This biped dinosaur dubbed the ‘Balaurul bondoc’ (stocky dragon) was ‘stocky built’ and had a pair of claws attached to its rear limbs, with which it caught the prey. The animal was 1.80 to 2.10 metre-long, including the tail. “The dinosaur is a new species of predator dinosaur different from what we knew,” Stephen Brusatte, a researcher at the University of Colombia, said. “The dragon could have been one of the largest predators in the European ecosystem at the time, given palaeontologists discovered not a single large dinosaur tooth in over one century of research,” Zoltan Csiki of the University of Bucharest, who co-authored the study, said in his turn. “The fossilised remains of the dragon have been known for more...

Romanian researchers discovered a type of cells which, together with stem cells, may encourage the regeneration of the heart muscle, after an infarction, Mediafax reports. Specialists at the Victor Babes Institute found serendipitously, while studying cells in the intestine, tiny cells which contribute to organ regeneration.

According to Laurentiu Popescu, the head of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the “telocite” cells were discovered by Romanian scientists, and their existence was confirmed by independent teams in Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and China. Alongside stem cells, telocites may contribute to the regeneration of vital organs, such as the heart and brain. “If we manage to isolate them, to multiply them together with the stem cells, we may use them efficiently in treating myocardial infarct,” Popescu added.

Telocites are small bodied cells, but with extremely long extensions (akin to the neuronal extensions), present in most body organs. They have...

Despite international criticism over its crackdown on Roma minorities, France will move ahead with repatriations and demolition of illegal nomad camps, with Immigration Minister Eric Besson pledging on Monday to increase expulsions of foreign thieves and beggars, according to Mediafax.

In a joint press conference with Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux and Secretary of State for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche, Besson said French authorities had no intention of rowing back on the crackdown, which has provoked concern from the UN, the EU and many leading figures of French society.

Besson’s comments came just hours after the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe joined the global outcry and denounced the Roma expulsions. But despite criticism, France insists that repatriations are fully in line with EU legislation and that the action is the result of keeping to the law – that the EU’s freedom of movement should not be abused, that the “insalubrities”...

Two people were killed after being infected with the West Nile virus from mosquito bites, from a total of seven cases of infection confirmed in Romania so far, Health Minister Cseke Atilla told a press conference on Monday, quoted by Agerpres. Three more cases are awaiting confirmation, he said. The two people who died from the virus came from Bucharest and Constanta, were both elderly people. The deaths were reported on August 19 and 22 and were caused by health complications, given the patients’ advanced age and the fact they were suffering from other health problems as well, the minister explained.

“The Health Ministry demanded stepped up actions to prevent the spread of the virus,” Cseke also said. He added that from the total number of infection cases, a small portion, about 15 per cent, risk developing meningitis, which is the most severe effect of West Nile, while the death risk is of one per cent. Health Ministry officials say children and elderly people are most...

Over 2,200 children under one year old died in Romania in 2009

Over 2,000 children under one year old died in Romania last year, when the registered mortality rate was concerning. The head of Elias Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Prof. Dr. Radu Vladareanu, told a press conference yesterday that a total of 2,230 children under 1 year of age had died in Romania in 2009, accounting for a concerning mortality rate of 10.1 per cent, the highest in Europe. The hospital official noted that 30 per cent of the infants under one year old had died from pneumonia and viral respiratory infections, an unacceptable situation in any other civilised country. According to the doctor, another cause of newborn death is represented by congenital malformations.

Almost 200 foreigners in Romanian prisons

Almost 200 foreign citizens - 42 from Turkey, 27 from R. Moldova and 19 from Bulgaria – are serving time in Romanian prisons, according to...

Meteorologists issued a rain watch which comes in force today in 30 counties, between 2:00 and 20:00. In the aforementioned interval, rain will fall in Banat, Crisana, Maramures, Transylvania, Moldavia and in all mountain areas, and the quantity of water may surpass, on wider areas, 20-25 l/sq m, and, on patches, 40-50 l/ sq m. There will be showers, possibly in torrents, complete with lighting and hail. Wind speed will intensify in all regions, particularly in the mountains. These phenomena will appear more frequently in Western and central regions, for now, and, tomorrow, will move eastwards. In other regions, such phenomena will cover a more limited ground. Later yesterday, hydrologists also issued a flood watch valid for today, between 4 a.m. and midnight, in 12 counties, mostly in the centre and eastern part of the country, according to Realitatea TV....

The Coalition of Chronic Patients’ Organisations (COPAC) accused the National Health Insurance House (CNAS) of recently modifying the price of medicine that they benefited from free of charge and demanded that the change be reverted because it was not previously discussed with patients, Mediafax reported.

CNAS rejects such a possibility, saying that the change is aimed at helping provide wider coverage for free-of-charge treatment.

The row began when CNAS earlier this year published a new list of compensated medicine, which provides that only the costs of cheaper medicine will be partially or totally supported by the health insurance house. As of tomorrow, an additional list of medicine only for chronic patients will come in effect, but working on the same principle – only cheaper drugs will be 100 per cent covered by the CNAS. This gave birth to fears among patients that they would no longer benefit from free treatment. However, CNAS president Lucian Duta insists...

The Civic Alliance of Roma in Romania yesterday launched a call for a wide-scale protest against a summit on immigration issues that Paris is planning to host next Monday. According to a press release sent to Agerpres, the protest would be organised simultaneously in several locations, on September 6, starting from 11:30 a.m.

The protest is initiated and supported by the Civic Alliance of Roma and by Roma community leaders in several Romanian counties. “This infamous summit is directed against Roma everywhere. This summit proposes stigmatising the entire Roma people. We are protesting against the French government’s ethnic cleansing policy against Romanian and Bulgarian citizens of Roma origin, against mass expulsions and repressive measures against this entire ethnic group,” the release reads. The Alliance also called for a boycott of all French products and services, so that French leaders are reminded of the fact “fundamental rights are non-negotiable.”

Recently,...

The Bucharest Court decided, yesterday, that the nurse Florentina Cirstea, charged with manslaughter and causing severe injuries, should remain in custody until the 29 days’ preventive arrest warrant expires. The court debated the nurse’s contestation of the Bucharest Sector 6 Court’s preventive arrest decision in the case of the maternity fire. The nurse, who was to keep watch of the infants on the night of August 16, when the fire started at the intensive care ward at the Giulesti Maternity Hospital, was arrested on August 24 for 29 days. Her lawyer petitioned the court yesterday to allow her investigation out of custody, on the grounds that she couldn’t possibly foresee, as a medical cadre, the occurrence of a fire or of any other unexpected event. At the same time, the lawyer stated that, according to the nurse’s job description, there was no obligation for her to remain, at all times, in the ward. According to the latter, the nurse was under the obligation to keep an eye on...

EUR 6.2 M lottery prize won in Iasi

The EUR 6.2 M top lottery prize was won on Sunday. According to the Romanian Lottery, the lucky ticket was played in Iasi and had a cost of RON 20.5. The ticket consisted of three simple variants and a special draw variant. According to the aforementioned source, the ticket had a cost of RON 20.5. This was the largest prize won this year. The winning numbers were 28, 21, 12, 7, 23 and 11. The top prize was previously won on March 7 and stood at EUR 1.7 M. The largest prize in the Romanian lottery’s history was won on January 27, 2008 and stood at approximately RON 47 M.

Has Dan Diaconescu’s party reached 20 pc?

In a blogary.ro blog post, presidential adviser Sebastain Lazaroiu says he got his hands on a poll indicating some spectacular changes since the spring surveys. “A very recent opinion poll (I am not going to disclose the name of the pollster, if they want to publish the results of the poll they can...

Former Cluj Prefect Calin Platon was detained for 24 hours after being heard by the traffic police yesterday in relation to a car accident he caused, killing a three-month baby and severely injuring his mother. Platon was to be taken to before a court with the proposal to be remanded, on charges of manslaughter, Realitatea.net reported.

After being interviewed by police for more than two hours and a half, he was taken to the Cluj Judge Hall Prosecutor’s Office to be heard by prosecutors as well, Mediafax said.

On his way to the Prosecutor’s Office, Platon told reporters that he deeply regretted “this terrible tragedy and I will answer in front of the law.” He also said that when the accident occurred, he was “blinded by sunlight” and saw the two victims on the pedestrian crossing in front of him when it was too late to hit the brakes. Platon added that he wasn’t speeding at the time.

A spokesperson for the Cluj County Police, Gina Pop, told Mediafax that...

Just one day after the hottest day of the year, autumn is here. Across the nation, yesterday, the tropical air was replaced by a wave of polar air. While meteorologists announce that heat wave temperatures will go down by up to 12C, doctors draw attention such sudden temperature variations are likely to create medical problems, Realitatea TV reports.

Saturday, mercury rose to 39C at Calafat and Bechet, the highest temperature this year. Saturday night however was a different affair, as a cold air front crossed the country, with temperatures going down by 10-12C. That resulted in a sudden drop in temperature in areas struck by heat wave Saturday. “On Sunday, the significant drop in temperature will be felt across the areas where the heat wave hit on Saturday. For example, those places where temperatures registered 38C will now see temperatures as low as 28C,” duty meteorologist Oana Paduraru told Realitatea.net. The cold air front brings with it precipitations and gusty wind,...

Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu stated on Saturday that, if the assets of the Giulesti Maternity Hospital are placed under sequestration, this would block the activity of the unit. Oprescu voiced hope that the court would reach a “balanced” decision, arguing that sequestration would be excessive, but that, “in the end, it’s up to the judges.” According to Oprescu, there are no hospital assets in the absence of which activity may continue undisturbed. The mayor’s statements come in response to a statement made by Chief Prosecutor Marius Iacob, the coordinator of the investigation in the Giulesti Maternity Hospital fire, arguing that prosecutors are considering precautionary measures related to the hospital assets, which would not affect the operation of the hospital. Prosecutors of the High Court initiated criminal prosecution against the Giulesti Maternity-“Panait Sarbu” Hospital, and sanctions may go as far as dissolving the healthcare unit.

As far as the...

A United Nations human rights body rebuked France on Friday for its crackdown on Roma and urged the government to try to integrate members of the EU’s biggest ethnic minority as part of a Europe-wide solution, Reuters reported. The 18 independent experts voiced concern that some of the hundreds of Roma flown to Romania in recent weeks under what France calls a voluntary repatriation programme had not been fully informed of their rights or had not freely consented to returning to their homeland.

“We understand that a state has a right and a responsibility to deal with security issues and issues of illegal immigration. But our view is when you are doing so, it should not be on a collective basis, you should not be targeting a group as a whole,” said Pierre-Richard Prosper, vice-chairman of the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). “There is an appearance of discrimination,” Prosper told a news briefing. Patrick Thornberry, a British committee...

Traffic beneath the Basarab overpass will resume on both lanes on September 15, with the exception of the Plevnei – Gara Basarab perimeter, Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu stated on Saturday. While visiting the construction site Oprescu pointed out that traffic beneath the overpass will resume on the evening of September 14, with traffic on the overpass itself set to start in January-February 2011. “I don’t want to open it for traffic while still having to put the finishing touches. No! We will open it for traffic at the end of the year like I promised,” the Bucharest General Mayor stated. He added that after the construction works are completed the overpass will be tested for a month’s time. According to him, the sum spent so far this year for the Basarab overpass stands at RON 164 M, with the final cost tending to reach RON 248-250 M by the time it is completed.

Oprescu also talked about the existence of some “brakesmen” that would like to prevent the completion of...

EU foreign policy chief visits Romania’s Expo Shanghai pavilion

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton yesterday visited Romania’s pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai, where she was greeted by Bucharest’s Expo 2010 General Commissioner Ferdinand Nagy and consul Florin Tacu, according to a press release from the Foreign Ministry. Ashton visited a photography exhibition and the museum presenting Romanian history and civilisation inside the pavilion. She also attended a chamber music concert by the Romanian Piano Trio. Ashton “Declared herself impressed with the pavilion’s design, the arrangement of exhibition spaces and the cultural and artistic programmes conducted within the pavilion,” the release said.

Interior Minister presents Schengen accession stage at Salzburg Forum

Minister of Internal Affairs Vasile Blaga presented in the Ministerial Conference of the Salzburg Forum, the stage of...

International cooperation in the area of Japanese studies, as well as a mounting interest in Japanese culture have led to the need to set up a Centre of Japanese Studies with the purpose of supporting research activity in the field. During the opening of the centre – the first of its kind in Romania – centre director Anca Focsaneanu explained to ‘Nine O’Clock’ that the intention of the project was to diversify research studies and train young people in the area of Japanese studies. It is seen as a way to facilitate the exchange of expertise and the establishment of an international reputation by cooperating with prestigious centres and associations of Japanese studies in Japan and worldwide. “The modernisation of Romania is down to studies, and the Japanese department is a highly dynamic one, having come a long way,” the rector of the Bucharest University, Prof. Ph.D. Ioan Panzaru, said. He also noted it was time to develop Romanian-Japanese relations and that the objective of the...

This weekend a new edition of the “National fair of organic, traditional and natural food” awaits Bucharesters with hors d’oeuvre prepared in cast-iron kettles, bread baked on a hearth, Transylvanian salami and sausages, jams prepared in monasteries, Arges County tuica and Maramures cookies. “At this fair of truly traditional products I provoke you to think with a light heart about serious things. What do you crave in autumn? Is there any dish you consider a legend of autumn? If so, tell us about it! One of our cooks will prepare it for you and you will receive a prize if none of them happens to know how to do it,” Daniela Popa, Media Link Businss manager, stated for Agerpres. The fair will also feature a book exhibition organised by the “Romanian Hospitality Association – tradition and evolution.” Ion C. Rogojanu, the president of the association, will present cook books, woodcuts featuring gastronomy subjects, menus authored by some painters and kitchen utensils....