National Press Review, 5 May

The Adevărul writes today: ‘the U.S. shield in Romania is a “Trojan horse”!’ Details follow:
Russia’s special representative at NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, spoke regarding Romania’s decision to host the U.S. shield through a wordplay aimed towards the Romanian President.

Russia still sees U.S. intentions for this region of Europe as suspicious and requests “legal guarantees” that the shield is not directed against Russian strategic forces.

Remaining on the same newspaper, but changing the subject, we read that trade union leader Petcu was arranging another bribe for himself!

The president of CNSLR – Fraţia and Sanitas, Marian Petcu, one of the wealthiest Romanian trade union leaders, was preparing to hand over to the businessman Petre Scrieciu a new execution contract, according to The Adevărul journalists, on the day he was arrested.

His share: 20 percent of the contract value.

Marius Petcu was sent to court for bribery and is taken into custody.

40 thousand EURO is the bribe with which the CNSLR President was caught.

The final dice are thrown inside the LDP – writes the România Liberă and details:

Although today is the last day when the democrat-liberals can apply for a management position in the LDP, the chessboard is still incomplete.

Among the few certainties you can find that neither Theodor Stolojan nor Valeriu Stioca aim for any position inside the party.

With less than 10 days to the PDL National Convention on 14th-15th of May, not all the aspirants for the leadership are known, neither is the way the final leadership team will be established or how the delegates will be voted.

In The Jurnalul Naţional we can read – Constitutional Court Judges upset the Opposition and Trade Unions: the social dialogue law and teachers salary law, for which the Government run by Emil Boc assumed responsibility for in Parliament, have been declared constitutional yesterday.

CCR Judges’ decision sparked the discontent of the Opposition, which sees only one viable solution: changing the structure of the Constitutional Court and naming Judges among the High Court of Cassation and Justice Magistrates instead of the actual Judges, politically named.

Disappointed by the Constitutional Court’s decision, Free Unions Federation in Education announced they would address the international forums, as they lost faith in state institutions.

The Jurnalul Naţional also writes: An iron-made Romania, carried through Constanta’s harbor.

The waste legislation was made in a moment when Romania looked like a pile of scrap, but the scrap metal recovery proved to be so lucrative that some started recycling.

They dug out the metal from everywhere, even if it was in the form of pipes and cables, the railway or the walls of homes and cemeteries.

So under the cover of night, an iron-made Romania has been carried through the past 10 years to the Constanta harbor, where it was loaded into boats and taken to be recycled in Turkey.

Translated by: Manuela Stancu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University