Friday, January 25, 2008
* NEWS *
EDITORIAL
Conference ? No ! Carnival ? Yes ! – Cristian Unteanu – Ziua – read here -
“Press agencies broke two pieces of news almost at the same time: Romania wasn't invited to attend the World Forum in Davos, but it was invited to the Venice Carnival. It's not bad to pay a lot for sending highbrow representatives to Venice so that we would at least be present in the continent's high brow culture”.POLITICS
Norica Nicolai issue up to Constitutional Court – Ovidiu Banches – Ziua – read here -“Yesterday the Romanian government addressed the Constitutional Court against the Romanian President's refusal to appoint Liberal senator Norica Nicolai a minister of justice, claiming such a decision was unconstitutional. According to the press release from the government, the Constitutional Court is asked to admit the existence of a juridical conflict of constitutional nature between the Romanian government and the President of Romania Traian Basescu, emerging because of the latter's refusal to appoint Norica Nicolai a minister of Justice“.
Booing in the Unification Day – Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -“The President and the PM reached the Unification Square at 11:00 a.m. They exchanged a few words in the beginning and then they grew completely indifferent to each other. The crowd there was also divided and recognizable by the color of balloons: orange for the PD-L, yellow for the PNL (National Liberal Party) and red for the PSD (Social-Democrat Party). The local Liberals displayed two huge banners in the square from which the locals could learn that Cuza the ruler had been a liberal. The PD-L tried to impress the public with a banner on which there was written "Unification Gives Power", the party's slogan. And there was even a small group of admirers of the Romanian Conservatives”.
Criminal case against Monica Macovei – Andrei Ghiciusca – Ziua – read here -“According to the Romanian general attorney Laura Codruta Kovesi, prosecutors are working on a criminal case against the ex justice minister Monica Macovei, opened because of a criminal complained authored by Tudor Chiuariu, her successor at the Romanian Ministry of Justice. The general attorney also announced yesterday that the inquiry was now in the preliminary documentation stage preceding the start of criminal investigations. In October 9, 2007, the Ministry of Justice sent a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor's Office, after having run across clues pointing to intellectual fraud, during checks on the contract with the Freedom House organization, author of the audit that had been the grounds of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy adopted in 2005. The contract had been reached while Monica Macovei was Romania's minister of justice. The general attorney commented: "I can neither confirm nor deny if consent to criminal inquiry will be asked for, since this decision is up to the prosecutor in charge of the case only" ”.
Green for cheat – S.A. – Ziua – read here -“President Basescu consented to a law belonging to ex Democrat minister of environment, because of which the state budget lost lots of million Euro. And the President even helped Sulfina Barbu, Romania's ex environment minister, get away with the criminal case against her. The President wouldn't allow for the start of criminal inquiry against the ex minister, although he had been provided with complex evidence of her serious corruption crimes. The President of the Environment Fund Administration was accusing that minister Sulfina Barbu elaborated emergency ordinance 196/ 2005 and law 105/ 2006 in disfavor of the state, but in favor of some "groups of political interests" ”.
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