National Press Review, March 19

The discussions started by the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) regarding the revision of the Constitution, the start of projects for supporting the small entrepreneurs and the investments in the renewable energy from Romania –these are some of the subjects from the dailies today.

“PDL is taking out the Constitution from the naphthalene” –headlines Jurnalul Naţional, regarding the intention of Democrat-Liberals to resume, starting this week, the discussions related to the fundamental review.

The newspaper comments that the power has an issue regarding the conditions in which the Social Liberal Union (USL) is in a parliamentary strike, because for adopting the revision project of Constitution are necessary two thirds of votes.

Because of this reason, last week, the PDL spokesman , Sever Voinescu, was talking about the necessity of the parliamentary opposition presence at the legislative realization in this respect.

With the title “Money from the state to make your business work”, Evenimentul Zilei announces that this week is starting the finances through the governmental programs designed for the young managers, business women and manufacturers.

The publication gives details regarding the three programs though which the state tries to support the Small and Medium Companies (IMM), which represent 99 percent from the overall of the companies from our country and which bring almost 70 percent from the Gross Domestic Product (PIB).

Details regarding the date when will start the subscriptions, the budget that each program has or the modality in which the financing is obtained –you find within the newspaper pages.

România Liberă tries to answer to the question “Why Nuclearelectrica accepts a loss of 34 million Euros?”

The author of the article sustains that, although the Romanian authorities have committed for over a year to the international financier institutions to cancel the contracts with the so-called “smart guys”, the companies that produce electric energy continues the preferential selling of electric power.

The newspaper makes reveals about the practices noticed by the civil company within a public letter addressed to the Prime-Minister Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu ad to the Economy minister Lucian Bode.

Finally, regarding the “Sun energy, the new El Dorado for investitures” –writes Adevărul, that explains why Aeolian energy loses field, and the photovoltaic parks are fully expanding.

The daily mentions that, in the next two years, in Romania will be installed photovoltaic panels with a total capacity of 256 MW, compared to only 1 MW as it presently exists in our country.

According to Transelectrica, it is about 62 projects.

The publication mentions the areas in which will be developed these, the necessary budget of investments and also gives details related to the support schema for the investitures in the renewable energy from Romania.

Translated by

Alexandra-Diana Mircea

MTTLC, Bucharest University