Friday, January 11, 2008
* NEWS *
EDITORIAL
Astrograms – Zoe Petre – Ziua – read here -
“From his privileged unilateral relations with Washington, Mr. President is sure to keep the idea of legitimate preventive offenses in mind and use it in domestic politics with a constancy that would be worthy of a better end. In 2005, the very day after he had just patched a coalition for ruling, when everybody was eager to see him attack the adversaries mercilessly, we got to see him attack his new allies. Once with the floods, the obsessive target of preventive attacks shaped itself and ever since then the PNL (National Liberal Party) has been the addressee of presidential aggression. The PNL recommends someone to become a minister and the President dismisses that someone at once. Preventively, no doubt”.
The fifth crisis – Adrian Ilie & Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -“The country has reached a new political crisis, bursting out because of the President's refusal to appoint the Liberal a minister of Justice and because of the PM's stubborn decision not to give up his proposal. The two officials interpret the Constitutional Court's decision in different ways, even if the Court made a decision on a similar case: the appointing of Adrian Cioroianu a minister of foreign affairs last spring. The fact that Romania hasn't got a minister of Justice at times when the EU institutions are about to release the preliminary report on Romanian Justice and therefore the fact that foreign partners have no one to talk to in the field is making this crisis worse. And this is actually the fifth crisis emerging in the relations between the Tariceanu Cabinet and President Basescu. (...)”.
POLITICS
Gusa's accusations against candidate Norica Nicolai – D.I. – Ziua – read here -“Yesterday Cozmin Gusa asked Norica Nicolai, Romanian Liberals' candidate to take over the Ministry of Justice, to make public and transparent statements about her business connections with the Tender group, the Patriciu group and Transylvania Bank before being appointed Romania's minister of Justice“.
Women rule over CSM for the first time – Razvan Savaliuc – Ziua – read here -“It is for the first time in the history of the CSM (Superior Council of Magistracy) that a woman judge has become a president of the institution and another woman, prosecutor Gratiana Isac, has been elected a vice president. (...)”.
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