Romania becomes a candidate for accession to CERN
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Romanian Minister Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer.
Romania entered into direct collaboration with CERN in the early 1990s. In recent years Romania has been constantly increasing its expenditure on R&D and this has been intensified since the country's accession to the EU in January 2007. Romania is involved in three LHC experiments, namely ATLAS, ALICE and LHCb . It also contributes to the DIRAC and ISOLDE programs and to GRID computing.
Further reading about the CERN-Romania collaboration: http://external-relations.web.cern.ch/External-Relations/candidate/romania.html
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1150904?ln=en