National Press Review, 29 November

“In 2012, IMF money will save us only half-and-half” as outlined by the România Liberă. If, in the last resort, the Union’s situation gets worse, our country can betake the preemptive agreement with the Fund.

The three billion and a half euro sum of money is huge but it would be enough only for a quarter of the loans for the next year.

As a consequence, the Government will have to cover the rest with domestic financing.

Let’s see financiers’ plans! The Ziarul Financiar reveals that the head of Erste Bank, the greatest private financier of the Romanian economy by BCR, asserts that there is no question about the withdrawal of the capital from the country because it has enough money to keep on lending.

Moreover, he states clearly that banks have not fallen into line with the Bank Austria which scared the Eastern Europe.

According to the daily, though the Erste and Reiffeisen Banks challenged the propositions, they were financially supported by the Austrian Government and now they cannot require any more money to the Reserve Bank.
“IMF requires to change everything from state to private ownership”, as quoted by the Jurnalul Naţional. The Fund stresses upon the trading of majority packages from Hidroelectrica, Nuclearelectrica, Transelectrica and Transgaz.

It will require this at the next visit as governmental sources declared for the daily.

As for the Transelectrica and Transgaz, which run the national critical infrastructure, the power and gas networks, the situation is complicated. This is the reason for which the Government insisted on that these enterprises should not be included on list with private owners companies.

As for the yesterday election that took place at the Upper House, the Evenimentul Zilei headlines: “Blaga, the bulldog, is on guard at the Senate”.

He will stand over that after Geoană’s removal the Government’s laws be passed.

Until now, even though they have had the majority, PDL had difficulties in commanding as long as they weren’t those laying down the agenda.

The Evenimentul writes that nothing would have been possible without the PSD competition: Victor Ponta’s support and his ambition of getting rid of his rival, Geoană, were priceless.

The coalition partners did not vote without asking something in change. UDMR negotiated toughly, adds the daily.

The same daily reveals: “Pedophiles should be afraid!” The piece of legislation related to chemical castration has got through the Senate. There lacks the decision of the deputies regarding this project which foresees “the inhibition by chemical methods of such sex drive” and the tracking by means of GPS after having executed the two to ten years punishment, depending on the seriousness of the crime.

“We bore down the real estate mafia: justice for the old man sent in the woods by the court”, the Adevărul writes about the results of a campaign which denounced a red of impostors.

After having lived in the woods for three years, a sixty year old man from Timisoara got back his home that he had lost due to an identity card and some signatures which the attorneys had faked.

Forgeries of the decree which condemned him to be a homeless go unpunished.

Guilty criminals were punished with the fact that judges have never prosecuted those responsible for the crime.

Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MTTLC, MA Student, Bucharest University