Bucharest district 3 mayor, Liviu Negoita plans to build in 48 months, 24 artificial fountains and allocate 4 million euro for this project, despite the financial crisis, one newspaper reads on Thursday. Elsewhere in the news, an ambitious PHARE project took over by a Greek construction company to improve the life of the nuns at the Agapia monastery in North Romania was a complete failure. Last but not least, at a time when Romanian gypsies flee from racist attacks in North Ireland, Briton William Blacker talks about his enchanted encounter with them.

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