National Press Review, August 1

"The number of citizens with the right to vote arises controversy. Hard mission for Constitutional Court takes into account the data from INS or MAI ? "-we read in Jurnalul Naţional.

An information overturns these assumptions: a judge from the Supreme Council of Magistracy said that electoral lists shall be kept at the judges and updated constantly by the mayors, we learn from the newspaper.

România Liberă deemed "USL plays black white-with number of voters".

The figure of 16.5 million, "taken out overnight from the topper" should, according to the USL, to validate the referendum.

Ziua news writes on the front page "Anarchy".

"The quorum required has made the difference between a democratic and a Romania handled politically", consider the columnists.

The gap of the two major political forces will be increasingly higher and we live in a country more divided, and hatred between the Romanians that like Băsescu and the ones who like USL will increase day by day, as Ziua news.

Adevărul is launching a call to politicians to end the political war to bring Romania into the limits of democracy.

Here we read about " The bill: political crisis costing us billions of euros".

External debt is pointless, inflated will be dearer, and increased budgetary revenues will be reduced by 20 percent.

The biggest impact on investors had the phrase "coup", say experts in the field.

Also Evenimentul Zilei wrote: "The political war has ended! The economy must be rebooted!"

Stability is very important because the IMF delegation arrived yesterday.

About the visit of the IMF assessment, we learn the details from Ziarul Financiar: "what lies in the country after the referendum and must assess".

What topics will be on the table: financing and budget, next year’s budget, privatisation, European funds and private management.

România Liberă tells us "why not enjoy the IMF about the reduced VAT for food?".

It seems that economists are not convinced that, in a first phase, this measure will lower prices and they think it might increase tax evasion.

About the new possible new preventive arrangement, Evenimentul Zilei put the question of whether or not we need another one.

The most important challenge would be able to borrow on the open market at a reasonable cost.

According to the IMF representative of Romania, Mihai Tănăsescu, a new agreement could be signed at best this time around.

We remain in the financial field in România Liberă and read "Leul that was helped by BNR to grow.

But how will it survive? "Near the end of the crisis has still the Forex market, but in the future we expect at fluctuations."

Another topic of the same area in Curierul Naţional: "when BCR recovers ?".

The largest bank in Romania registered losses of nearly 500 million lei in the first half of the year, but management of BCR says that will spare no effort to put it on.

Ziarul Financiar tells us that "prolonged Drought is costing farmers two billion euros" because only 1.5 percent of the total arable land is irrigated.

One reason is the removal of subsidies for irrigation.

Farmers say that the pipes have been stolen.


Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University