National Press Review, 11 March

Labour Code, the Left's right hand, headlined the Adevărul, which compared the document assumed by the Government with the SLU version.

The journalists noted that: the Social Democrat and Liberal Parties have been accused of copying up to 80 percent of the government bill.

Paradoxically, the text of the filed censure motion brought eight arguments that have been contradicted by the code that the Opposition itself has filed in the Senate.

The PNL vice-president"s reaction, Mariana Câmpeanu, who has read the motion"s text in the plenary session: "Do not be pettifoggers!"

More profitable than gold or stock is… the potato, the Gândul wrote, explaining how the price of the vegetables simply exploded: at the beginning of the year, potato prices spiked by 17 percent.

By comparison, in the first two months of the year, the stock has increased by almost 10 percent, while gold... was cheaper by 4.8 percent.

The journalists from the Gândul quoted data from the National Institute of Statistics underlying that: "If someone bought potatoes at the end of last year and sold them in the late February, they would have achieved a higher gain than investing in Exchange or in gold or than the returns offered by the banks on deposits."

When asked about the higher potato prices, the Agriculture Minister said that it was a technical problem. On the other hand, contacted by the Gândul, the president of the National Federation POTATOES, Ioan Benea said that: "Mister, I sold potatoes in front of my farm's gate with two lei per kilogram, VAT included.

If they reach the cost 3, 50 Lei per kilogram on the store shelf, I have nothing to do with that. In this circle there are also the distributors, and major commercial networks. You draw your own conclusion."

The România Liberă resumed today the subject of the soaring fuel costs, headlining that: "New oil bomb shook world."

"The price of gasoline at the pump beating historical records not only in our country", the journalists wrote, "but also throughout Europe, although the oil price is still far from the peak reached in 2008."

And yet.... why did black gold price suddenly increase by 20 percent?

"Due to psychological aspect and lack of knowledge of the economic realities, but also because of speculation that has benefited from the dramatic effect created by television", replied the România Liberă, which concluded that: Saudi Arabia remains the great unknown, a kingdom whose destabilization, however unlikely, would have devastating consequences on the world.

"Germans are afraid to come as tourists in Romania", the Jurnalul Naţional wrote. "Reasons: crime, high prices and... poor services."

Whoever has Romania in mind when talking about tourism? Germans NO, connecting Romania as a country that is not safe", said a representative of a German tour operator quoted by the Jurnalul Naţional .

The apprehended problems have reached also the ears of the competent minister, Elena Udrea, present at International Tourism Fair in Berlin. The Romanian official has promised to solve a part of the problems, but labeled the Germans" demands as, quote, "high".

"Unprecedented transplant in Romanian medicine", the Evenimentul Zilei headlined – doctors from the Marie Curie Hospital performed yesterday a bone transplant to a young woman suffering from the disease of glass bones.

The bone was taken from a brain dead person. The intervention was successful, the journalists wrote, and the solution found by the Romanian doctors is a unique procedure.

Also in the Evenimentul Zilei, a tip for those who have money for constructions: "construction masters" decreased their charges by 50 percent compared to the real estate boom period.

Translated by: Iulia Florescu

MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University