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Ukraine humiliated us in Bucharest – Roxana Iordache – Ziua – read here -
“Rarely did Romania go through humiliation as great as the one coming from Viktor Yushchenko, the President of Ukraine, during last Thursday's press conference he held together with the Romanian President in Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest”.

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Parliament is obstacle in President's way – Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -
“Each of the sides fighting in the war between the Parliament and the President of Romania Traian Basescu is making use of all prerogatives to prevent the opponent's initiatives. The head of state has often used his constitutional right to demand that some law drafts should be revised. The MPs refused to proceed to the modifications at stake most of the times. And when they made changes, they would change points different from the ones the President criticized. According to the Constitution, the President may ask that a law be revised one single time. In case of refusal from the Parliament, he must promulgate the law draft. Another means the President has got available is to address the Constitutional Court“.

Basescu fired employee illegally – D.C. – Ziua – read here -
“The ECHR reached decision that Gabriel Marian Stefanescu, a former head in the Romanian Ministry of Transport, abusively dismissed in 1996 by transport minister Traian Basescu, would be hired again and paid damages”.

Constitutional Court: Government didn't break Constitution – Ovidiu Banches – Ziua – read here -
“The Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the Romanian government hadn't broken the Constitution by the ordinance on the Euro-election. Yesterday the Court also reached decision that the laws on grounds of which the Senate had dismissed the norms on the restructuring of the government were unconstitutional”.

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Referendum costs 47,3 million RON – Ovidiu Banches – Ziua – read here -
“The Romanian government passed yesterday five normative documents settling the technical details on the organization of the future referendum. Expenses are to reach 47, 3 million RON at most”.

Protests in front of Parliament – C.P. – Ziua – read here -
“The US Mediasind protests scheduled to take place next Monday in front of the Parliament building in Bucharest are part of the November 5 events organized by the International Federation of Journalists in 30 states: Stand Up For Journalism.
The protests to last between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. are aimed at warning public opinion about political assails against Romanian journalists and about the politicization of the public television stations and radio posts. The organizers claim there is need of a national strategy on economic support for the press. They also invoke the need to respect the Deontological Code of journalists and therefore high quality journalism”.

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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”.