People House(in Ceausescu Era)/Parliament Palace(today) – Bucharest – Tis is the second greatest building of the World (as total build area), with an build area of 330.000 sqm. The building have 12 overground floors and 8 udergrounded.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
* ROMANIA's WONDERS *
People House(in Ceausescu Era)/Parliament Palace(today) – Bucharest – Tis is the second greatest building of the World (as total build area), with an build area of 330.000 sqm. The building have 12 overground floors and 8 udergrounded.
Fate of 'betrayers' decided today
The PSD (Social-Democrat Party) president Mircea Geoana and the other party leaders got together last evening to think about what to do with the 'betrayers' who had voted against the bill. In today's meeting of party officials Mircea Geoana is going to ask for sanctions against those who had opposed the government collapse, after pointing to expelling last evening.
But Viorel Hrebenciuc came up with a compromise solution. PSD sources claim he suggested rebuke would do.
Roxana Andronic
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
But Viorel Hrebenciuc came up with a compromise solution. PSD sources claim he suggested rebuke would do.
Roxana Andronic
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Promise: In power in 10 days' time
Yesterday morning Mircea Geoana, a president of the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), asked his MPs to vote for the bill against the government, promising that the PSD would negotiate with the PD (Democrat Party) on a "multiple inspiration" government, party sources say. "The PSD may be in power in 10 days' time", he promised the PSD senators and deputies.
The PSD leader even claimed President Traian Basescu had been on TV to lobby for the bill after having talked to him in order to make preparations for the next step to be taken after the bill. They say Mircea Geoana told party officials: "I've just talked to the PM on the phone and he says he is making no deal with us for fear of Basescu". Therefore, he went on, the only solution left for the PSD is a national union government with the PD, a version negotiated last evening between the PSD and the PD. (...)
Nicolae Vacaroiu, a speaker for the Romanian Senate, claimed in his turn that there was an agreement between the PSD and the PD on the making of a "multiple inspiration" government. He said he didn't know about a written protocol or about the number of future ministers from the PD.
The PSD spokesman Cristian Diaconescu denied it at once, claiming there was no deal until the bill failed. Most Social-Democrats were claiming there was no protocol reached between the PSD and the PD and that Nicolae Vacaroiu probably wanted to scare the Liberals.
Roxana Andronic
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
The PSD leader even claimed President Traian Basescu had been on TV to lobby for the bill after having talked to him in order to make preparations for the next step to be taken after the bill. They say Mircea Geoana told party officials: "I've just talked to the PM on the phone and he says he is making no deal with us for fear of Basescu". Therefore, he went on, the only solution left for the PSD is a national union government with the PD, a version negotiated last evening between the PSD and the PD. (...)
Nicolae Vacaroiu, a speaker for the Romanian Senate, claimed in his turn that there was an agreement between the PSD and the PD on the making of a "multiple inspiration" government. He said he didn't know about a written protocol or about the number of future ministers from the PD.
The PSD spokesman Cristian Diaconescu denied it at once, claiming there was no deal until the bill failed. Most Social-Democrats were claiming there was no protocol reached between the PSD and the PD and that Nicolae Vacaroiu probably wanted to scare the Liberals.
Roxana Andronic
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Seal of love
Despite the agreement between the PSD (Social-Democrat Party) and the PD (Democrat Party) with blessing from Cotroceni Palace, the PSD bill against the government failed yesterday. PSD sources claimed the two parties had made a deal to overthrow the Tariceanu Cabinet. The PSD had asked for written guarantees, President Basescu's included. A document had been signed by the very head of state, granting the PSD with access to a government mostly of PD members, the same sources added.
But the decision the MPs reached yesterday by their ballots shows the agreement was just mimed. The ballot counting unveils that the members of the PD, the PSD and the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party) disobeyed the orders from their own party heads. Ballots from all the members of the three parties would have exceeded the 232 polls the bill needed to pass. Given this, Mircea Geoana's days as president of the PSD are counted.
Because of he bill failure, the government is to expect assails from all sides or it may prove able to calm the hot spirits in politics down. This is up to PM Tariceanu's skill to negotiate with the main politicians on the 2008 budget and on the changing of the date when the new pension law is to come into force. The negotiations are due to start today.
There were 220 MPs who voted for the bill, 152 voted against it and 115 didn't vote at all. Given the counting, there were more than 30 'traitors' who gave a hand so that the Liberal PM would stay in Victoria Palace. (...)
The PSD leader Mircea Geoana blamed the failure on the "cowardliness" of the MPs scared with the early election idea or with a new government. He avoided mentioning the "deficiencies", but he warned that, unless voting for it, Ion Iliescu would have to explain to the PSD branch he was part of. The PD leader Emil Boc blamed it on the PSD, mentioning there were 29 deficiencies because of this party. Senate speaker Nicolaie Vacaroiu replied: "It is Boc who is partly guilty of the failure, because in the voting day he denied any talks and collaboration protocol between the PD and the PSD".
"There were talks with both the PNL and the PD"
As for the MPs longing for a new government, they proved diligent yesterday. Adrian Nastase no longer left abroad, Adrian Severin returned to Romania and Raluca Turcan was there, although pregnant. Still Ion Iliescu's friend Razvan Theodorescu and Ioan Solcanu said it clearly that they would vote against the bill.
Some PSD members pointed to Ion Iliescu, Sorin Oprescu and Adrian Nastase, although in the morning they were claiming the bill would pass. They said the PD "bought" ballots from some Liberals and the victory was sure. The Liberals weren't intimidated by the crowding MPs and the Social-Democrats' confidence and started lobbying on every PSD MPs, promising funds in the territory, government changes and the possibility to sign a protocol after the election of MEPs. In the end the Liberals managed to persuade 7 senators and 15 deputies in it.
Roxana Andronic, Razvan Gheorghe, M.T. & A.I.
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
But the decision the MPs reached yesterday by their ballots shows the agreement was just mimed. The ballot counting unveils that the members of the PD, the PSD and the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party) disobeyed the orders from their own party heads. Ballots from all the members of the three parties would have exceeded the 232 polls the bill needed to pass. Given this, Mircea Geoana's days as president of the PSD are counted.
Because of he bill failure, the government is to expect assails from all sides or it may prove able to calm the hot spirits in politics down. This is up to PM Tariceanu's skill to negotiate with the main politicians on the 2008 budget and on the changing of the date when the new pension law is to come into force. The negotiations are due to start today.
There were 220 MPs who voted for the bill, 152 voted against it and 115 didn't vote at all. Given the counting, there were more than 30 'traitors' who gave a hand so that the Liberal PM would stay in Victoria Palace. (...)
The PSD leader Mircea Geoana blamed the failure on the "cowardliness" of the MPs scared with the early election idea or with a new government. He avoided mentioning the "deficiencies", but he warned that, unless voting for it, Ion Iliescu would have to explain to the PSD branch he was part of. The PD leader Emil Boc blamed it on the PSD, mentioning there were 29 deficiencies because of this party. Senate speaker Nicolaie Vacaroiu replied: "It is Boc who is partly guilty of the failure, because in the voting day he denied any talks and collaboration protocol between the PD and the PSD".
"There were talks with both the PNL and the PD"
As for the MPs longing for a new government, they proved diligent yesterday. Adrian Nastase no longer left abroad, Adrian Severin returned to Romania and Raluca Turcan was there, although pregnant. Still Ion Iliescu's friend Razvan Theodorescu and Ioan Solcanu said it clearly that they would vote against the bill.
Some PSD members pointed to Ion Iliescu, Sorin Oprescu and Adrian Nastase, although in the morning they were claiming the bill would pass. They said the PD "bought" ballots from some Liberals and the victory was sure. The Liberals weren't intimidated by the crowding MPs and the Social-Democrats' confidence and started lobbying on every PSD MPs, promising funds in the territory, government changes and the possibility to sign a protocol after the election of MEPs. In the end the Liberals managed to persuade 7 senators and 15 deputies in it.
Roxana Andronic, Razvan Gheorghe, M.T. & A.I.
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Calin Popescu Highlander and a sedative for Basescu
ZIUA spoiled the day of backstage servants. Yesterday before the start of the debate on the bill against the government, the ZIUA director Sorin Rosca Stanescu delivered live on Antena 3 TV station a bomb that exploded straight in the faces of those who had done everything to get power again, of the Front for National Salvation kind. Sorin Rosca Stanescu informed both public opinion and most of the MPs who had no idea about a protocol between the PSD and the PD (Democrat Party), established with consent from President Traian Basescu.
The Pharisee-like propaganda attitude of the President and of the PD and PSD leaders came out. They say one thing, but they do the other backstage. Traian Basescu claimed the PSD was public enemy no. 1 who supported the Liberal government from the shadow, and the PD leader Emil Boc claimed the same. But the PSD supported the government that much that they came up with the bill against the Tariceanu Cabinet. And the PD joined it. They also claimed the 322 MPs who voted for the suspension of the Romanian President were some villains to be driven away. But it was proved that Traian Basescu and the PD would have actually given anything for at least 232 of the 322 MPs to vote for the bill.
State interests were dropped in pubs and palaces. They proved indifferent to national priorities. National budget, election of MEPs, the NATO summit Bucharest is to house, assimilation of EU funds, fight against corruption, separation of economy from politics and no political interference in economy, they all are issues that Tariceanu government is concerned with and working for, despite the dreadful pressure. But the opposition has ignored them.
Right now both the PSD and the PD are in a more than embarrassing situation. They made fools of themselves in the eyes of their own electors. The PSD is a fool because of the prostitution with the PD to serve President Basescu, although just a few month before the party initiated the suspension of President Basescu and supported the Tariceanu government without PD members. It is also to be assumed that the PSD has got electors cleverer than the poor manipulated, people who honestly trust the left and would really like to see the PSD prove a modern left doctrine of the Tony Blair kind, instead of the old Communist smelling propaganda, as provided last night in the Parliament by Dan Mircea Popescu. Ceausescu himself would have voted for it, for something of the "redistribution to meets needs". But anyway, as foreseen, Mircea Geoana is history. The bill failed and he failed with it too.
The shoes the PD is in are even worse than those of the PSD. The Democrats voted against their own ministers in the first Tariceanu Cabinet, sacking them by bill. And they voted against the right government criticized by the PSD. Deputy Radulescu's speech against the Liberal Party resembles the denunciations common at the time when the ex Communist Secret Service in Romania used to get reports. But today he dares, like the PD does, to plead for lustration. There are also characters like Cristian Boureanu, most unrelenting enemies of the National Liberal Party, but who would have never reached the Parliament had there been no National Liberal Party. The latter will have to consider a priority such as ban on political migration or expelling from the Parliament as sanction.
But of course PM Calin Tariceanu, his government and party have got no reason to boast about victory. They passed the budget test, but obsessed President Basescu will do everything to sabotage the government. He had instigated against it one evening before the bill debate, urging the PSD and the PD to vote for no governmental project. As for the Tariceanu Cabinet's duties, some other time.
Roxana Iordache
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
The Pharisee-like propaganda attitude of the President and of the PD and PSD leaders came out. They say one thing, but they do the other backstage. Traian Basescu claimed the PSD was public enemy no. 1 who supported the Liberal government from the shadow, and the PD leader Emil Boc claimed the same. But the PSD supported the government that much that they came up with the bill against the Tariceanu Cabinet. And the PD joined it. They also claimed the 322 MPs who voted for the suspension of the Romanian President were some villains to be driven away. But it was proved that Traian Basescu and the PD would have actually given anything for at least 232 of the 322 MPs to vote for the bill.
State interests were dropped in pubs and palaces. They proved indifferent to national priorities. National budget, election of MEPs, the NATO summit Bucharest is to house, assimilation of EU funds, fight against corruption, separation of economy from politics and no political interference in economy, they all are issues that Tariceanu government is concerned with and working for, despite the dreadful pressure. But the opposition has ignored them.
Right now both the PSD and the PD are in a more than embarrassing situation. They made fools of themselves in the eyes of their own electors. The PSD is a fool because of the prostitution with the PD to serve President Basescu, although just a few month before the party initiated the suspension of President Basescu and supported the Tariceanu government without PD members. It is also to be assumed that the PSD has got electors cleverer than the poor manipulated, people who honestly trust the left and would really like to see the PSD prove a modern left doctrine of the Tony Blair kind, instead of the old Communist smelling propaganda, as provided last night in the Parliament by Dan Mircea Popescu. Ceausescu himself would have voted for it, for something of the "redistribution to meets needs". But anyway, as foreseen, Mircea Geoana is history. The bill failed and he failed with it too.
The shoes the PD is in are even worse than those of the PSD. The Democrats voted against their own ministers in the first Tariceanu Cabinet, sacking them by bill. And they voted against the right government criticized by the PSD. Deputy Radulescu's speech against the Liberal Party resembles the denunciations common at the time when the ex Communist Secret Service in Romania used to get reports. But today he dares, like the PD does, to plead for lustration. There are also characters like Cristian Boureanu, most unrelenting enemies of the National Liberal Party, but who would have never reached the Parliament had there been no National Liberal Party. The latter will have to consider a priority such as ban on political migration or expelling from the Parliament as sanction.
But of course PM Calin Tariceanu, his government and party have got no reason to boast about victory. They passed the budget test, but obsessed President Basescu will do everything to sabotage the government. He had instigated against it one evening before the bill debate, urging the PSD and the PD to vote for no governmental project. As for the Tariceanu Cabinet's duties, some other time.
Roxana Iordache
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
* ROMANIA's WONDERS *
Mogosoaia Palace – near Bucharest – It was build by Constantin Brancoveanu, the Muntenia ruler, between 1698 and 1702. This monument is now connected at two international cultural networks.
IMF is optimistic
In 2007 and 2008 Romania's gross domestic product is going to grow with 6%. Albert Jaeger, head of the IMF mission in Romania and Bulgaria, estimated it yesterday. It is to be reminded that in the first term this year the GDP had a growth of only 5,8% and that Romania underwent severe drought last summer.
According to the initial draft on the 2008 budget, as presented by the Romanian economy minister Varujan Vosganian, the budget deficit is to reach 2,7% of the GDP. The current account deficit, the fiscal and salary policies, a possibility such of overheating economy and the international financial crisis are the main fears of Romanian economy. Jaeger also mentioned that the instability prevailing in Romanian politics was an obstacle against the making of the medium term economic strategies the state needed. He added the need was somehow illustrated by the funds Romania could get from the EU. The EU has got 7-year financial prospects, he claimed, and Romania needs planning for the exploitation of opportunities.
Another issue the IMF official raised was the pension system reform. He estimated Romania would face difficulties with it after 2008 and it needed a strategy for the time to come after 2009. (...)
F.B.
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
According to the initial draft on the 2008 budget, as presented by the Romanian economy minister Varujan Vosganian, the budget deficit is to reach 2,7% of the GDP. The current account deficit, the fiscal and salary policies, a possibility such of overheating economy and the international financial crisis are the main fears of Romanian economy. Jaeger also mentioned that the instability prevailing in Romanian politics was an obstacle against the making of the medium term economic strategies the state needed. He added the need was somehow illustrated by the funds Romania could get from the EU. The EU has got 7-year financial prospects, he claimed, and Romania needs planning for the exploitation of opportunities.
Another issue the IMF official raised was the pension system reform. He estimated Romania would face difficulties with it after 2008 and it needed a strategy for the time to come after 2009. (...)
F.B.
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Lobby for bill against government
The President of Romania Traian Basescu came out yesterday to explain Presidency's view on the fate of the Social-Democrats' bill against the government. He announced that, if the Parliament passed the bill, he would talk to the parties and appoint a PM to try to establish a majority on the nucleus made by the PNL (National Liberal Party), the PD (Democrat Party) and the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party).
The officials of both Parliament Chambers are to debate on the bill against the government today at 12:00.Choice for a Democrat PD
The President informed yesterday: "My choice is certainly a PD PM. This PM's duty is to make a team and a plan and find 50% plus 1 support in the Parliament. Unless the PM finds such support, although I will be taking all efforts to help him, I will make a second move: try to talk to the parliamentary parties and establish a national union government to govern till the following elections". The President added that, in case this failed too, then early elections would follow. Still he mentioned "But we know this is not the case and the second government will pass".
Olteanu and Hrebenciuc made a deal
The PSD (Social-Democrat Party) and the PNL agreed in yesterday's talks to vote against the bill against the government, parliamentary sources claim. The PSD wanted power in exchange for voting against their own bill, whereas the Liberals insinuated they would be willing to govern together with the PSD after the election of MEPs.
Sources also say the PSD delegation for talks was made up of Mircea Geoana, Cristian Diaconescu, Titus Corlatean and Viorel Hrebenciuc. On the other side, in the PNL delegation there were Bogdan Olteanu, Titus Gheorghiof, Puiu Hasotti and Crin Antonescu.
Imminent government changes
PNL sources mention that Liberal leaders such as Norica Nicolai and Puiu Hasotti suggested that, after the PSD reached derision, there should follow changes in the Tariceanu Cabinet. It mainly regards foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu, education minister Cristian Adomnitei and Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu. (...)
Roxana Andronic & Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Europe's gypsies
Romanian criminals, mostly of Roma origin, have horrified the EU, which is why Romanian citizens are driven away from EU states.
Italy is threatening to make the law harsher and settle visas for the Romanians who want to travel there. Since 2006 until now in Italy there were arrested 76 Romanians for murder, 475 for rape, 700 for trafficking in humans and prostitution and no less than 20,000 for theft. The mayor of Rome warned Bucharest authorities that, unless they took the responsibility for the Romanian migrants, the issue might be tackled at EU level. Sandro Gozi, a president of the migration committee in the Italian Parliament, told ZIUA that Romanians might get to travel on visas again. The official pointed to the lack of any communication with Romanian MPs on Romanian migrants.
On the other hand, Codrut Seres has summoned the Italian ambassador to the foreign affairs committee in order to reproach him for the "xenophobe" attitude of the mayor of Rome.
Another measure Italy may take against all the Romanians might be repatriation on grounds of public security. The Party of Romanians in Italy is having demonstrations today in Rome to protest against Italian press offensives against the Romanian community.
Expelled because of threatening public security
Extremist organizations used Molotov cocktails against Rome people tents, asking them to leave. The Italian interior minister announced he was analyzing the idea to allow local authorities to expel community citizens, mostly Romanians, thought to be a menace against security in Italy.
Walter Veltron, a mayor of Rome, mentioned he asked the Italian interior minister Giuliano Amato and the Rome prefect Carlo Mosca to modify the normative decree, according to which repatriation is allowed only in case of threat against national security. Amato said he was thinking about meeting the Rome mayor's request and granting authorities with the right to expel community citizens if they were a threat against public security. The Italian minister is taking it for a means to help calm strain down in certain quarters where immigrants commit many crimes and also to fight against ultranationalist attitude, headed mostly against Roma people, an attitude that has lately been growing in Italy.
The community citizen status provides Romanians with the right to enter Italy. The Italian minister said he was standing by those heading his country to get jobs, but he outlined the need for means not to grant free access to those wishing to commit crimes. Amato claimed it was just a project for the time being, since it was not clear under which circumstances an EU citizen might be expelled from one member state. Last June the Italian minister released a report describing Romanians together with the Moroccans and Albanians as the most dangerous criminals in Italy.
The great migration
Due to Romania's EU membership and the elimination of visas, Romanian criminals have lately been heading mostly Spain and Italy. This is the reason why some gangs specialized in thefts are no longer here. This is what fuels the perception according to which criminality has been diminishing. Our criminals didn't retire, they just changed their action place for Spain and Italy. But when they are caught and sent home, criminality will have a significant growth. The latest event involving Romanians took place last week, when 1 Romanian was killed and 2 were severely injured by gun bullets in a quarter in northern Rome. (...)
Bogdan Galca
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Italy is threatening to make the law harsher and settle visas for the Romanians who want to travel there. Since 2006 until now in Italy there were arrested 76 Romanians for murder, 475 for rape, 700 for trafficking in humans and prostitution and no less than 20,000 for theft. The mayor of Rome warned Bucharest authorities that, unless they took the responsibility for the Romanian migrants, the issue might be tackled at EU level. Sandro Gozi, a president of the migration committee in the Italian Parliament, told ZIUA that Romanians might get to travel on visas again. The official pointed to the lack of any communication with Romanian MPs on Romanian migrants.
On the other hand, Codrut Seres has summoned the Italian ambassador to the foreign affairs committee in order to reproach him for the "xenophobe" attitude of the mayor of Rome.
Another measure Italy may take against all the Romanians might be repatriation on grounds of public security. The Party of Romanians in Italy is having demonstrations today in Rome to protest against Italian press offensives against the Romanian community.
Expelled because of threatening public security
Extremist organizations used Molotov cocktails against Rome people tents, asking them to leave. The Italian interior minister announced he was analyzing the idea to allow local authorities to expel community citizens, mostly Romanians, thought to be a menace against security in Italy.
Walter Veltron, a mayor of Rome, mentioned he asked the Italian interior minister Giuliano Amato and the Rome prefect Carlo Mosca to modify the normative decree, according to which repatriation is allowed only in case of threat against national security. Amato said he was thinking about meeting the Rome mayor's request and granting authorities with the right to expel community citizens if they were a threat against public security. The Italian minister is taking it for a means to help calm strain down in certain quarters where immigrants commit many crimes and also to fight against ultranationalist attitude, headed mostly against Roma people, an attitude that has lately been growing in Italy.
The community citizen status provides Romanians with the right to enter Italy. The Italian minister said he was standing by those heading his country to get jobs, but he outlined the need for means not to grant free access to those wishing to commit crimes. Amato claimed it was just a project for the time being, since it was not clear under which circumstances an EU citizen might be expelled from one member state. Last June the Italian minister released a report describing Romanians together with the Moroccans and Albanians as the most dangerous criminals in Italy.
The great migration
Due to Romania's EU membership and the elimination of visas, Romanian criminals have lately been heading mostly Spain and Italy. This is the reason why some gangs specialized in thefts are no longer here. This is what fuels the perception according to which criminality has been diminishing. Our criminals didn't retire, they just changed their action place for Spain and Italy. But when they are caught and sent home, criminality will have a significant growth. The latest event involving Romanians took place last week, when 1 Romanian was killed and 2 were severely injured by gun bullets in a quarter in northern Rome. (...)
Bogdan Galca
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
* ROMANIA's WONDERS *
Metropolitan Chatedral – Iasi – This Cathedral was builded in two etapes (first between 1833-1839, the second respectively between 1880-1888). Is famous for the annual pilgrimage at the holly bones of Christian Saint Parascheva.
Putin-Basescu scenario
The Russian President's announcement that he might become a PM after the presidential elections in March 2008 has bewildered the whole world. The tough man in Kremlin will go on ruling the Russian Federation as PM by placing an obedient President. An idea such as Romania's slide towards totalitarianism of the Russian kind has recently been analyzed in Bucharest. Sorin Rosca Stanescu mentioned a hypothesis such as President Basescu turning into a PM. The ex Romanian President Emil Constantinescu and Doina Cornea have also accused the Romanian President of authoritarian tendencies resembling those of Vladimir Putin.
ZIUA prediction on Basescu-Putin
In his editorial published in September 15 and titled 'The deadly shift', Sorin Rosca Stanescu opined that Traian Basescu would give up presidency to become a PM and thus attain his goals. He was arguing as follows: "Traian Basescu has got a solution that may turn into a lethal weapon for his political adversary, given the approaching elections. It consists in a surprising shift in the President-government relations. Traian Basescu can practically announce that he is no longer joining the electoral confrontation for the 2009 presidential elections because of striking back to the leadership over a coalition made up of the PD (Democrat Party) and the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party) and aspiring to the PM job, whereas presidency would go to Theodor Stolojan. Not only that such a solution would really confuse the other parties, but it would also be lethal to them due to the final score. This may provide comfortable majority to the present presidential coalition and reliable political support to the future government. Not last, it may be Traian Basescu's chance to get himself reloaded for his second mandate as President, in 2014". There was also the idea that Theodor Stolojan might reach Cotroceni Palace: "Given these, the solution considered in the Cotroceni political lab, the second great shift between Traian Basescu and Theodor Stolojan, is not only spectacular and surprising, but also realistic. It is a play typical of Traian Basescu. If he gets to head the PD again, Traian Basescu will manage to restore discipline in his party, do away with the rebels and those who drew criminal cases for themselves and be a firm ruler, persuading the party into rejecting the idea of sharing work and success with the PLD. The pride of the PLD would be satisfied with a candidate to Presidency in the person of Theodor Stolojan".
Constantinescu's accusation: Basescu is Putin's clone
In September 16 the ex Romanian President Emil Constantinescu claimed in an interview to Mediafax Agency that the Basescu regime was a parody of the Putin regime, as the Romanian President was controlled by the secret services wishing to coordinate Romania economically and politically. (...)
Doina Cornea: Basescu causes separation
In her interview to ZIUA in September 22, Doina Cornea commented: "In my opinion, Basescu is a politician who, by his moves, makes us all feel insecure. His attitude has even managed to separate the Magyars. He dismembered everything on his way, starting with the National Christian-Democrat Party, my party, when he dismembered the Ciorbea government. When he was a minister of transport, he used to say Romania didn't need highways and this is how a lot of time was wasted. Now it is him who criticizes the government for not building enough highways, as if they could be built in one single day. How come he dares criticize the government for this ? It is only the intriguers and immoral people who use such means. I am sorry I have to say such things".
L.P., A.M.L. & G.D.
Ziua tuesday 2 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
ZIUA prediction on Basescu-Putin
In his editorial published in September 15 and titled 'The deadly shift', Sorin Rosca Stanescu opined that Traian Basescu would give up presidency to become a PM and thus attain his goals. He was arguing as follows: "Traian Basescu has got a solution that may turn into a lethal weapon for his political adversary, given the approaching elections. It consists in a surprising shift in the President-government relations. Traian Basescu can practically announce that he is no longer joining the electoral confrontation for the 2009 presidential elections because of striking back to the leadership over a coalition made up of the PD (Democrat Party) and the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party) and aspiring to the PM job, whereas presidency would go to Theodor Stolojan. Not only that such a solution would really confuse the other parties, but it would also be lethal to them due to the final score. This may provide comfortable majority to the present presidential coalition and reliable political support to the future government. Not last, it may be Traian Basescu's chance to get himself reloaded for his second mandate as President, in 2014". There was also the idea that Theodor Stolojan might reach Cotroceni Palace: "Given these, the solution considered in the Cotroceni political lab, the second great shift between Traian Basescu and Theodor Stolojan, is not only spectacular and surprising, but also realistic. It is a play typical of Traian Basescu. If he gets to head the PD again, Traian Basescu will manage to restore discipline in his party, do away with the rebels and those who drew criminal cases for themselves and be a firm ruler, persuading the party into rejecting the idea of sharing work and success with the PLD. The pride of the PLD would be satisfied with a candidate to Presidency in the person of Theodor Stolojan".
Constantinescu's accusation: Basescu is Putin's clone
In September 16 the ex Romanian President Emil Constantinescu claimed in an interview to Mediafax Agency that the Basescu regime was a parody of the Putin regime, as the Romanian President was controlled by the secret services wishing to coordinate Romania economically and politically. (...)
Doina Cornea: Basescu causes separation
In her interview to ZIUA in September 22, Doina Cornea commented: "In my opinion, Basescu is a politician who, by his moves, makes us all feel insecure. His attitude has even managed to separate the Magyars. He dismembered everything on his way, starting with the National Christian-Democrat Party, my party, when he dismembered the Ciorbea government. When he was a minister of transport, he used to say Romania didn't need highways and this is how a lot of time was wasted. Now it is him who criticizes the government for not building enough highways, as if they could be built in one single day. How come he dares criticize the government for this ? It is only the intriguers and immoral people who use such means. I am sorry I have to say such things".
L.P., A.M.L. & G.D.
Ziua tuesday 2 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Misinformation
The documents proving the SRI (Romanian Secret Service) did political police action were falsified. Yesterday it was the same Mugur Ciuvica, a head of the Group for Political Investigations, who produced the 'authentic' documents, bearing the signature of the SRI chief accompanied by the direction that they should be provided to the Romanian President.
According to Mugur Ciuvica, it was the SRI chief 
Radu Timofte who consented and the documents were sent to President Traian Basescu. Sergiu Medar, formerly a chief of the National Security Department and also a presidency adviser, knows nothing about these reports.
And there is also the fact that, apart from the two documents, Mugur Ciuvica fetched another two: one on "intention of the Social-Democrat Party to replace Victor Ponta as secretary of the Chamber of Deputies" and the other one, dated October 21, 2005, regarding "certain intentions of the National Liberal Party". The documents were also meant for the Inspectorate for Constitution Protection and Economic Security in the SRI, a department that "identifies and evaluates local and regional risks with possible influences or determinations on Romania's national security".
The SRI postponed the presentation of the report to the parliamentary committee. Ion Stan, a member of the latter committee and formerly a head of it, claims it is about misinformation plotted by foreign secret services. As for Mugur Ciuvica, he claims he has produced the authentic documents because the SRI didn't admit the their authenticity and President Basescu didn't take distance from political police action. (...)
Radu Stroe, head of the parliamentary committee of control over the SRI: "I'm dreaded !"
"Reading the materials from the Group for Political Investigations, I am seized with dread, if these things are real. I thought it was an accident, but I see things are getting complicated. The new information unveiled casts a different light on the whole case. And a mere report from the SRI can no longer be enough for the committee. I am waiting to see the documents from the Group for Political Investigations. Yesterday they called the committee to say they wanted to hand us the authentic materials".
Social-Democrat deputy Victor Ponta: "Not a serious thing"
"This is not a serious thing, since the great news on replacing me was in the press. I don't know if the SRI or someone else monitors the press. That famous information on myself being sacked as a secretary was in the whole press then, there was nothing secret. In my opinion, this is just a continuation of the battle between the National Liberal Party and the SRI and I can't understand while I am involved in it". (...)
Doru Dragomir, Razvan Gheorghe & Marius Batca
Ziua tuesday 2 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
According to Mugur Ciuvica, it was the SRI chief 
Radu Timofte who consented and the documents were sent to President Traian Basescu. Sergiu Medar, formerly a chief of the National Security Department and also a presidency adviser, knows nothing about these reports.And there is also the fact that, apart from the two documents, Mugur Ciuvica fetched another two: one on "intention of the Social-Democrat Party to replace Victor Ponta as secretary of the Chamber of Deputies" and the other one, dated October 21, 2005, regarding "certain intentions of the National Liberal Party". The documents were also meant for the Inspectorate for Constitution Protection and Economic Security in the SRI, a department that "identifies and evaluates local and regional risks with possible influences or determinations on Romania's national security".
The SRI postponed the presentation of the report to the parliamentary committee. Ion Stan, a member of the latter committee and formerly a head of it, claims it is about misinformation plotted by foreign secret services. As for Mugur Ciuvica, he claims he has produced the authentic documents because the SRI didn't admit the their authenticity and President Basescu didn't take distance from political police action. (...)
Radu Stroe, head of the parliamentary committee of control over the SRI: "I'm dreaded !"
"Reading the materials from the Group for Political Investigations, I am seized with dread, if these things are real. I thought it was an accident, but I see things are getting complicated. The new information unveiled casts a different light on the whole case. And a mere report from the SRI can no longer be enough for the committee. I am waiting to see the documents from the Group for Political Investigations. Yesterday they called the committee to say they wanted to hand us the authentic materials".
Social-Democrat deputy Victor Ponta: "Not a serious thing"
"This is not a serious thing, since the great news on replacing me was in the press. I don't know if the SRI or someone else monitors the press. That famous information on myself being sacked as a secretary was in the whole press then, there was nothing secret. In my opinion, this is just a continuation of the battle between the National Liberal Party and the SRI and I can't understand while I am involved in it". (...)
Doru Dragomir, Razvan Gheorghe & Marius Batca
Ziua tuesday 2 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Mircea Geoana bit Cotroceni bait
The PSD (Social-Democrat Party) wants a national union government, but there have been no talks with the PD (Democrat Party). The PSD president 
Mircea Geoana said it yesterday while talking to some retired Romanians in Bragadiru.
He claimed that, in case the bill against the government passed, there were three possibilities available: a left government, a right government or a multi-party one. He claimed he hadn't talked to the Democrats about it a day before when the new Patriarch had been enthroned.
He didn't even deny a possibility such as future government headed by the same PM, that is Liberal Calin-Popescu Tariceanu, but he argued that the present government was not an option. He commented he wasn't sure about a PSD-PD government to emerge and he neither denied the idea of a national union government to be grounded on this nucleus. He explained: "I can't picture a PSD-PD government. But if the PSD and the PD provide parliamentary support to a government made of members from more parties, this is a different thing".
Ion Iliescu: "A fanciful idea"
Ion Iliescu, an honorary president of the party, described Traian Basescu's idea about a national union government as "a fanciful, unrealistic idea lacking grounds".
Marko Bela, a leader of the Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania (UDMR), is against the idea too, claiming such a solution is needed only at times of crisis, which is not the case in today's Romania. He commented: "A national union government is needed at times of crisis when, regardless of the doctrine, one must give a hand and settle the crisis".
Roxana Andronic & Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua tuesday 2 octombrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Mircea Geoana said it yesterday while talking to some retired Romanians in Bragadiru.He claimed that, in case the bill against the government passed, there were three possibilities available: a left government, a right government or a multi-party one. He claimed he hadn't talked to the Democrats about it a day before when the new Patriarch had been enthroned.
He didn't even deny a possibility such as future government headed by the same PM, that is Liberal Calin-Popescu Tariceanu, but he argued that the present government was not an option. He commented he wasn't sure about a PSD-PD government to emerge and he neither denied the idea of a national union government to be grounded on this nucleus. He explained: "I can't picture a PSD-PD government. But if the PSD and the PD provide parliamentary support to a government made of members from more parties, this is a different thing".
Ion Iliescu: "A fanciful idea"
Ion Iliescu, an honorary president of the party, described Traian Basescu's idea about a national union government as "a fanciful, unrealistic idea lacking grounds".Marko Bela, a leader of the Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania (UDMR), is against the idea too, claiming such a solution is needed only at times of crisis, which is not the case in today's Romania. He commented: "A national union government is needed at times of crisis when, regardless of the doctrine, one must give a hand and settle the crisis".
Roxana Andronic & Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua tuesday 2 octombrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Monday, October 01, 2007
* ROMANIA's WONDERS *
Marasesti Mausoleum – Marasesti – It was build in 1928 in memory of the First World War Heroes. Inside of this funeral commemorative monument burns the Eternal Fire in two funeral recipients.
A liar in Cotroceni Palace
President Traian Basescu made a fool of himself one more time. Let me quote Ion Cristoiu, the well-known Romanian analyst: "The University Square housed a folk music performance featuring Traian Basescu". The head of state couldn't stay away from it and this time too he tried to turn a party of the retired Romanians into a media show with himself as protagonist, at a political time. He took advantage of the hundreds of people there. Among the retired there were members of his family and some top members of the Democrat Party, such as the omnipresent Elena Udrea. He also made use of some television stations' benevolence to show him on the small screen. And every word he uttered was a lie. Therefore let's talk about political lies.
I was not the only analyst to suspect the head of state of cheat when he promised to come to the University Square regularly to report to people about the state of the nation. He promised it at electoral times, deeply marred by disgusting political partisanship.
The first thing is that, under a democratic regime, one doesn't report to people in the street, but in the Parliament. The second thing is that it was already notorious that Traian Basescu doesn't keen promises. It was not by accident that journalists were watching the President the day he was to report. Traian Basescu lied indeed, for he had played truant at the meeting with Bucharest inhabitants. Last Saturday when attending the concert he claimed there had been no meeting between of the heat, but it was too late. He claimed he had dropped by the University Square, but that there hadn't even been five people willing to listen to him and therefore he had left. There can be no greater offense against Bucharest inhabitants !
It is time for readers to learn about the way Traian Basescu arranges his so-called crowd bathing. Everytime he tries to become popular, he opens the means of communication from Cotroceni Palace to the editorial offices. There leaks information, more and more precise, about what the President is to do at a certain time, about what time he is to reach a mall or a market or what time he is to dance. And this is how the press is always there and it is the press who informs people many a time. Or the crowds don't gather. This ritual admitting no exception wasn't performed that hot Saturday when Traian Basescu claimed he had gone to the University Square to find no one there. And there is one single explanation to it: he wasn't there and he didn't even intend to be.
But last Saturday he tried to fool us. This is why I called him a liar live on Realitatea TV the very last Saturday. I said that at least Elana Udrea, wearing some fashionable hat, et company would have waited for him, even for a quarter of an hour, by the University Watch. And of course the experts in presidential karaoke will claim the opposite.
Another blunt lie is the one on his "historical" right to confiscate the University Square. Traian Basescu said it was the place where Romanians gathered to rejoice or to be sad. In one single sentence he tried to cast derision on the symbolical dimension of this place, the o kilometer of Romanian democracy. The University Square is the square of freedom, but not a stage for political pantomime.
And one more thing: in his very brief speech the same Traian Basescu argued there shouldn't exist two different Romanias. So when did he lie ? Last Saturday, when asking the guardians to remove the fences separating the two groups ? Or last Friday, when he put it bluntly that he was the President of only those voting for him ? Who is splitting Romania in two, in fact ? The fences couldn't be removed, although Traian Basescu incited the public order institutions to break the law. There are two ways in which the law banned the removal of fences: firstly, because there were two different demonstrations and, secondly, because the Christian-Democrats would have crossed the street to be crashed by rolling cars. What a piece of liar we have in Cotroceni Palace !
Sorin Rosca Stanescu
Ziua monday 1 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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