National Press Review, 15 November

“Tension rising ahead of the third quarter. The National Institute of Statistics is about to announce today the biggest economic growth from the past three years", the Ziarul Financiar writes.

The majority of analysts forecast a GDP growth around 3 percent. Agriculture is the leading sector.

“Geoană, not ‘hard to kill’ in PSD, but hard to expel from the Senate”, the Adevărul writes.
Even if the party continues to take steps for replacing the ex leader in the Senate, the procedure does not allow it. The government owns the majority in the Chamber and wants to seize the plan, for being against the rules.

“Drivers, pay attention to this winters’ epidemic: stolen tires in 120 seconds!”, the Evenimentul Zilei writes.

Since the beginning of this month, thieves have stolen winter tires from scores of cars, leaving them on their hubs and the owners have suffered losses that range from 800 to 2000 lei. However, an anti-theft device costs less than a new set of tires. The cheapest of them is around 90 lei.

The Jurnalul Naţional is making “the inventory of the termites devouring Romania’s forests. A series about wood mafia and its tools”. The great hunters in wood industry have infiltrated in all countries with permissive legislation and corruptible authorities.

“They chop down everything in their way and then leave”. The paper advises that we should look beyond the thieves, to the great exporters and manufacturers who go on bribing and lobbying in order to change laws, but who are themselves approached by the countries' members of parliament.

“2 million euros gained without effort, by selling the country’s goods”. This is the business man Remus Truică’s recipe for becoming rich, the România Liberă writes.

Part of his impressive fortune comes from real estate transaction with the states' lands, helped by the complicity of institutions like Romanian Government and local councils, the newspaper writes.

We read in the Cronica Română about “European Germanophobia”. What does this refer to? It is about the fear Italian, Greek, Spanish and French politicians have for adopting the German discipline and for honoring the rules that would put an end to corrupt money and would cure the brainwashed voters. They will soon have to choose between discipline and pure misery, the Cronica Română writes.

The Evenimentul Zilei publishes a report about China, the place where the West rushes to in search of financial support under the headline “How to land from skyscrapers right in the rice plantations”.

We read about the array of contrasts the new super-power has: from the fictional image of Shanghai which is full of skyscrapers and lights to the Chinese state, hundreds of years away from the great cities.

Translated by: Angelica Ţăpoca
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University