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The President has got some guts – Roxana Iordache – Ziua – read here -
“One needs to have real guts to talk about morality and claim to be a knight of pure quests, although one has got the Romanian President's past. He has never made clear his personal story, his address or financial status. As for the criminal cases against him, they are deadlocked.
Still he plays the savior of the nation's quests and he looks like the liberating Russian cannons. No argument, no invocation of sensible reasons, nothing can prevent his campaign of moral fraud to serve his own interests and his clientele's. He keeps on supporting the same approach in favor of the majority rule voting system and he omits inconvenient truths”.

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Yushchenko defeats Basescu a third time – Anca Hriban & George Damian – Ziua – read here -
“The talks between the President of Romania Traian Basescu and the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko lasted more than three hours yesterday. They raised all the traditional topics of Romanian-Ukrainian relations, "reaching diagnoses and possible solutions", as the Romanian President put it afterwards. He gave some details: the Transdniester issue, national minorities, the siderurgy plant in Krivoi-Rog and Bastroe canal in particular. The very issues they had talked about one, two and three years before“.

Romanian PM: The referendum is expensive – Ovidiu Banches – Ziua – read here -
“According to the law, the referendum may not be held in the same locatios where the Euro-elections are held, but the government is taking efforts to cut on the costs involved. This is what the Romanian PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu wrote in his letter for the President of Romania Traian Basescu yesterday.
In his reply the PM asked the President not to use the uninominal vote law as tool in the political and electoral fight and collaborate on a common purpose instead. It is to be reminded that last Monday the PM got a letter from the President, demanding that the referendum and the election of MEPs should share the locations so that the processes would be simultaneous”.

Geoana asked to get rid of people like Iliescu – M.T. – Ziua – read here -
“As the Euro-election campaign is progressing, things are getting worse in the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), for party leaders are busy fighting domestic battles and taking revenge against adversaries from within the party. The news is that, apart from such disputes, surprising because of their context, some of the top leaders have got to use dirty language”.

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Muffled fraud – style="font-style:italic;">Razvan Savaliuc – Ziua – read here -
“Crin Nicu Bologa, a head of the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Department) branch in Cluj, closed a case on a piece of land of 70 million Euro the state was illegally deprived of. The beneficiary of it is Arpad Paszkany, a favorite of President Basescu's”.

Decision on safeguard clause most likely in November 27 – G.M. – Ziua – read here -
“The European Commission is most likely to decide whether to apply the safeguard clause on Romanian agriculture or not in November 27. EU Commissioner Leonard Orban said it yesterday.
He explained the decision would be 100% grounded on the state of things in Romanian agriculture. He opined that Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU Agriculture Commissioner, was most willing to support Romania in avoiding the safeguard clause, as well as in the country'' future initiatives”.

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Violence Import/Export Company – Cristian Unteanu – Ziua – read here -
“The communities of immigrants in Europe have become the main reason for the prognosis departments in some of the greatest intelligence services to worry”.

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Mayor Videanu has got full control over Bucharest – M.T. – Ziua – read here -
“The PD (Democrat Party) has got full control of Bucharest. Since the Social-Democrat councilors resigned, Adriean Videanu, the Democrat mayor of Romania's capital city, can do whatever crosses his mind at inhabitants' expense“.

President postpones uninominal vote law PM promotes – Razvan Gheorghe & Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -
“The President of Romania Traian Basescu announced yesterday that he wouldn't promulgate the law on the election of deputies and senators, although PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu took responsibility to promote it yesterday in the Parliament. The President argued that the referendum to be held in November 25 was not to be influenced by pressure coming from a law that existed already. He mentioned: "The referendum is necessary because there are very many flaws in the law and it doesn't settle the restructuring and reform of the political class". He announced he had sent a letter to the PM, asking that the polling stations for the election of MEPs and the referendum should be common. He invoked the fact that in the 2004 Euro-elections 9 of the EU newcomers had had one more kind of scrutiny at the same time”.

Romanian President doesn't revoke prosecutor Doru Tulus – Anca Hriban – Ziua – read here -
“The President of Romania Traian Basescu announced yesterday evening that he was dismissing the solicitation from Romania's Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu, demanding that prosecutor Doru Tulus, a head of Department II in the National Anti-Corruption Department, should be revoked. The President even claimed that "minister Chiuariu should be the one to leave", arguing that the latter official was actually a guardian of potential criminals obeying the orders from the masters who had appointed him in the government”.

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Discrimination rules – Corina Scarlat – Ziua – read here -
“Because of poor management of diversity, companies have got problems with employees' disloyalty. Although spending funds on recruiting staff, many of the employees quit in the first three months, although still in training. This is the conclusion reached in the research released yesterday during the seminar organized by the Partnership for Equality Center and the Cartel ALFA National Union Confederation”.

Preparations for 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest – A.M.L. – Ziua – read here -
“Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a general secretary of NATO, reached Bucharest yesterday to talk to the Romanian officials about details on the future NATO summit, scheduled for April 2008 in Bucharest”.

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The uninominal voting system's superiority as myth – Dan Pavel – Ziua – read here -
“The superiority of the uninominal voting system as compared to the list voting is one of the most subversive anti-democratic dogmas circulating in Romanian society. The naďve think the uninominal system can do away with the corrupted, the stupid, the members of the ex Securitate (Communist Secret Service in Romania), the ex nomencklature members and the fake professionals. This is sheer aberration. It is not the voting system that promotes or counters the corruption, amateurishness, immorality, demagogy or stupidity of politicians. There are more profound causes the voting system won't effect on”.

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FIDESZ leader wants autonomy for Magyars in Romania – D.E. – Ziua – read here -
“Viktor Orban, a president of the FIDESZ, the main opposition party in Hungary, asked the Magyars in Romania to fight for autonomy. He did this during a religious ceremony dedicated to the grapes cropping in a locality called Viille Orasu Nou, which he attended together with reformed bishop Laszlo Tokes. Viktor Orban, formerly a PM of Hungary, told the more than 1,000 Magyars there that they should take pains and become autonomous, if this was what they wanted“.

One signature brings millions – D.C. – Ziua – read here -
“While a mayor of Bucharest, Traian Basescu, now a President of Romania, helped a false heir grab a block of 12 flats in the very center of Bucharest”.

Romanians are dissatisfied with fight against corruption – Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -
“According to an opinion poll by CIVIS (Center for Sociological Analyses and Investigations), most Romanians are dissatisfied with the progress of the fight against corruption”.

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PM takes responsibility for uninominal vote law – Roxana Andronic – Ziua – read here -
“The Romanian government is taking responsibility for the uninominal vote today in the Parliament. PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu is to present the law draft in front of both Romanian senators and deputies. The text is going to pass unless parliamentary parties come up with bill against the government in 5 days' time. So far no party has expressed interest in taking such initiative and the only party opposing the uninominal vote system is "Greater Romania" Party. It is to be reminded that the President of Romania Traian Basescu decided that a referendum on the same issue would place the very day the election of MEPs in Romania is due”.

Top of out of date MPs – Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -
“Cozmin Gusa, a president of the PIN (National Initiative Party), came up yesterday with a Top 100 of "out of date MPs", described as criminals or fighting with their past. Ion Iliescu, Viorel Hrebenciuc, Marko Bela, Radu Berceanu and Cristian Adomnitei are some of the politicians in the top”.