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| Media Headlines 03/02/2011 |
| (2011-02-03) |
| Last updated: 2011-02-04 16:39 EET |
Political turmoil in Cairo has grabbed the headlines in all Romanian newspapers on Thursday.
“Egypt on the brink of civil war”, reads the daily paper JURNALUL NATIONAL. ADEVARUL and GANDUL have chosen almost identical titles to cover the violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in which people have been killed and wounded.
The daily paper ADEVARUL describes Mubarak as “an old and sick dictator”, but also as “a friend of Romania”, who, since 1977, has met three of his Romanian counterparts: the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and presidents Ion Iliescu and Traian Basescu.
ADEVARUL also headlines: “Egyptians in Romania worry about their relatives”. The almost 1,000 Egyptian citizens settled mostly in the capital Bucharest and the Black Sea port of Constanta, in the south-east, are worried about their loved ones and want to take to the streets to voice their solidarity with the participants in the Cairo riots.
In an article headlined “Mubarak is leaving, is Al Qaida coming?” ROMANIA LIBEARA writes: “in the west, there is a lot of controversy about the threat of a radical Islamist wave drowning the Middle East.” Very popular among Egyptians, the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement is seen as the potential winner of the post-Mubarak elections.
If to some western analysts the movement is wiling to accept a democratic and secular system in Egypt, others speak about the unacceptable risks that an Islamist regime poses in the largest and most powerful Arab country from a military point of view.
ROMANIA LIBERA even describes the Muslim Brotherhood as to “a nursery for terrorists”, because it branched off into militias such as the Islamic Jihad and Hamas, while its ideas were used as a source of inspiration for the Al Qaida.
The same daily writes that the tensions in Egypt have already led to a rise in the oil price to more than 100 dollars per barrel and could endanger the security of the Suez Canal, a strategic axis of world trade and the third source of foreign revenue for Egypt.
After this winter’s riots in Tunisia and Egypt, EVENIMENTUL ZILEI wonders: “Who’s next?” The analysts quoted by this newspaper foresee the end of the Arab regimes where all power is concentrated in the hands of one leader, and believe that educated young people will have a say from now on.”
“From Algeria to Yemen, the power of presidents and governments will be diminished, and the system ruled by nepotism will be replaced by a technocratic system,” writes Evenimentul Zilei without making any estimation of the number of years or decades that will have to pass for this to happen.
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