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EDITORIAL

Your Majesty, do you want monarchy or not ? – Cristian Badilita – Ziua – read here -
“It is 2007 and we are wondering pensively: Where is your people, Your Majesty ? And even more pensively: Where is your King, Romanian people ? In case you don't or you do know, in case you remember or you don't want to remember, you have had a King for more than 65 years, a King who intertwined your destiny with Europe's true history several times. It is a King whose ancestor brought you to the civilized world, bestowed independence and even more, dignity, onto you. It is a King whose grandfather made you a whole and whose father elevated your culture, despite all his flaws”.

POLITICS

Budget passing costs 700 million Euro – R.I.P. – Ziua – read here -
“Radu Berceanu, a senator representing the PD (Democrat Party), accused yesterday that the PNL (National Liberal Party) paid the PSD (Social-Democrat Party) to pass the 2008 budget project: "2,4 billion ROL is the price he PNL paid to the PSD so that the latter would support the state budget for 2008 in the Parliament". He claimed this was why the PDL (Democrat Liberal Party) wouldn't vote for the budget. According to the senator, the PRM ("Greater Romania" Party) and the PC (Conservative Party) too got extra funds for one district each“.

Euro-businessmen – Marian Ghiteanu – Ziua – read here -
“Many of the MEPs to represent Romania in Strasbourg have got very profitable business at home. If the business develops at European level by finding opportunities or new partners, the MEPs from Romania stand a chance to improve personal profit, apart from the considerable wages they will cash as MEPs”.

ZIUA ruins secret business of CSAT – Doru Dragomir – Ziua – read here -
“The ZIUA report titled "Romania's business of the century" published last Tuesday prevented for the time being the making of a secret decision on the new kind of aircraft to be purchased for the Romanian military. In yesterday's meeting of the CSAT (Supreme Council of National Defense), the President of Romania Traian Basescu and PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu didn't agree on the means to purchase the new multirole plane to replace the old Soviet MiG-21”.

LATEST

Golden curbs – Mihnea Talau – Ziua – read here -
“ "I am giving you work and you don't buy from me ?" the mayor reportedly told the city authorities trying to obey the law. The administrator of a company part in the asphalting operation confirmed that he had actually been forced into buying granite curbs imported from China by the Titan Mar. The acquisition was done with no selection of offers, in spite of Ordinance 34/ 2006. Moreover, mayor Videanu sold the curbs for 149 RON per meter, although the current price used by his market opponents was 129 RON”.