National Press Review, August 13

" Government Ponta has not done all the homework for the negotiations with the IMF", considers Ziarul Financiar. The government went to the talks without the budget impact studies and has not persuaded the Fund to accept the application VAT at invoice receipt from this year, the decrease in VAT from 9 percent for foodstuffs and progressive taxation.

The full of coarse shows us Jurnalul Naţional: Finance Minister Florin Georgescu says that "negotiations with the IMF were completed successfully". It was approved the package of measures to stimulate the jobs creation and delaying health co-payment. In addition, there were "found out amounts needed to restore the salaries of budgetary employees at the level of June 2010 the amounts incorrectly withheld and for pensioners.

About VAT at casing in Bursa, we read that "has become an unnecessary complication". The application, which is documented in the newspaper, is likely to become a bureaucratic chaotic process and even though waiting for many years such provision, businessmen would prefer to give up on it.

From România Liberă we learn out that "recent rains may also change agricultural production this year?" It's too late for crops: wheat was threshing, corn - burned by heat-. Instead, farmers say the rains have saved the orchards, are blessing for summer plowing and can recover substantially grasslands . Save in the last minute by a catastrophic agricultural year!

Who are those who "Earns hundreds of millions of euros in Romania, but pay zero taxes," says România Liberă. Most foreign road builders have reported losses in 2011, though, in the same year, a major builder of Romanian roads did not have losses, indeed, some have been more staggering profits. The explanation would be that foreigners repatriating money to their countries of origin by fireworks tax.

"Hillary Clinton is sending her assistant in Bucharest. To save the suspended? "asks Juirnalul Naţional . The American envoy's visit is a "crucial battle for referendum validation" and even if it seems an attempt to support of Traian Băsescu, there might be a chance for USL, believes the newspaper.

On the front page in Adevărul – a film title: "The night of the generals". On the night of 1 to 2 august, former Minister Victor Paul Dobre and Quaestors Constantin Manoloiu and Nicolae Căbulea- considers Adevărul - plotted to mislead the judges from the Constitutional Court and forged that address by MAI not assumes the veracity of permanent electoral lists.

Invalidation of the referendum, episode three- we read in Evenimentul Zilei. The Constitutional Court will meet tomorrow in the plenary in order to clarify the issue errata "trouble " but achieving the quorum be questioned, because six judges are on leave abroad . "Like the political class, as well judges from the CCR are divided into two camps," believes the newspaper.

"Deadly Blow" to Băsescu’s campaign: the light comes from BEC , "we read in the newspaper Azi . According to the decision of the Central Electoral Bureau, quoted by this publication, CCR cannot use the law for election of the President to compile vote lists , as claims Băsescu. For the referendum would apply the law that says "permanent lists shall be made out on localities and shall include on all citizens that have the right to vote residing in the locality have been drawn up for that."

"The worst ever Olympics in the past 60 years," writes Adevărul: a place 27 , only two titles and nine medals in total. Adevărul makes an analysis of the situation: what sports have confirmed, those that have deceived and the causes.

Translated by

Denisse-Meda Bucura

MTTLC, Bucharest University