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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 07/04/2008-13/04/2008 |
| (2008-04-11) |
| Last updated: 2008-04-14 10:11 EET |
The much contested first car registration fee, which has been applied in Romania since early 2007, will be replaced by a car pollution fee. This fee is going to be calculated depending on the technical data of each car, based on carbon dioxide and fumes emissions. According to PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the executive wants to clean the air of the big cities, a direct consequence of the fee being the purchase of less polluting cars. Calin Popescu Tariceanu:
“From now on it’s those that are polluting that will pay, be they small or high capacity vehicles. Our intention is to clean the air of the big cities. I know it’s not easy but we all have to learn a lesson and observe the “polluter pays” principle.”
This statement was made by Calin Popescu Tariceanu on the occasion of a public hearing on the draft emergency ordinance regarding the car pollution fee, a meeting during which NGO representatives and regular citizens expressed their opinion on the issue. The environment experts’ arguments in favour of the car pollution fee rely on the fact that all cars, newer or older, emit fumes into the atmosphere. They say the money collected following the application of the car fee will be used only for environment projects. The conclusions of the hearing will be used in a report drafted by experts and will reach the Government by April
The workers with the Dacia Pitesti car maker have given up the all out strike started three weeks ago, and accepted the offer of the biggest car maker in Romania owned by the French group Renault. The proteters asked for a 150 euro pay rise, eventually obtaining an increase by about 80 euro to be paid retroactively as of January 1st. They were also promised a further pay rise in autumn. Thus the salary of a worker with Dacia Pitesti amounts to one quarter of the pay cashed by a worker with the Renault car maker.
Equally discontent this week have been state employees who, following an emergency ordinance, will no longer receive gift vouchers. The main pre-academic education trade union federations asked the PM, in an open letter, to cancel the ordinance and announced they would hold a meeting in the capital city next week. Even the president of the Bucharest Liberals asked the PM to give up the decision. Ludovic Orban believes that the “measure is totally infelicitous now, ahead of the Orthodox celebration of Easter, a moment when many local councils had decided to grant workers these gift vouchers. A gained right is not taken back, as a rule. Moreover, such measures are ungrounded given that these vouchers were granted from local budgets” Orban added.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry will make professional, financial and staff assessments in the 119 diplomatic missions and consular offices of Romania. The decision was made by foreign minister, Adrian Cioroianu, shortly after PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu criticised the way in which the “case of Claudiu Crulic” was handled. The 33 year old Romanian died in Poland after a prolonged hunger strike in detention. An investigation was started at the Romanian Embassy in Warsaw and the persons found guilty of mismanaging Crulic’s case will be punished. Adrian Cioroianu:
“The case is extremely serious, it does not have to do with the image of the ministry or minister alone. I am not implying that responsibility lies only with the Romanian authorities. What’s unexplainable is the way in which Claudiu Crulic was treated in prison and subsequently in the hospital where he died. I’m interested in finding out if the Foreign Ministry employees respected the procedures which they should have normally applied. “
Polish authorities have in turn opened an investigation to look into the death by starvation of the Romanian citizen. Claudiu Crulic was accused in July 2007 of pick pocketing in a shop and together with other people of having stolen credit cards which brought them 22.5 thousand Polish Zlots. The accusations were rejected by Claudiu Crulic, who once in prison, in September, refused to eat; in January 2008 Crulic died. Crulic said that when the theft occurred, he was in Italy, but the Polish prosecutors did not check the declaration. Romanian daily ADEVARUL carries the declaration of the coach guide who knew Crulic as he was a regular passenger; the guide confirms Crulic’s declaration and shows his outrage at the fact that the Romanian was not heard by the Polish prosecutors.
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