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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 16-22/06/2008 |
| (2008-06-21) |
| Last updated: 2008-06-27 16:23 EET |
Romania is among the first EU member states to have ratified the Lisbon Treaty and backs the completion of the project. That is the stand taken by president Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu at the summer European Council in Brussels. They expressed hope that political solutions will be found with a view to continuing and successfully completing that process, despite the Irish NO vote at the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Designed to reform the European institutions, the Treaty has been ratified by 19 EU states, but in order to take effect, it is must be ratified by all 27 EU members. At the afore-mentioned summit, Romania proposed that measures be laid down in the final document of the Council, meant to curtail the impact of the increase in food, oil and energy prices on the population world wide. Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said:
“Romania proposes the inclusion in the Council’s final document of provisions related to the maintenance of the European agricultural model, including a gradual scrapping of subsidies for production or the crops used for bio-fuels and on the other hand, the growth of productivity for basic farming products.”
The Central Electoral Bureau on Thursday made public the returns of the local elections held in Romania on June 1st and 15th. The left wing Social Democratic Party in opposition got the largest number of mayor seats nation wide: 1,138. It is followed by the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party in opposition with 908 seats, the ruling National Liberal Party with 706 seats and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, the junior member of the government coalition, with 184 seats. Bucharest’s mayoralty was won by the independent candidate Sorin Oprescu, a social-democrat dissident, with 56.55% of the votes. He took office on Thursday, when the General City Council was validated. The Liberal Democratic Party and the populist, non-parliamentary New Generation Party formed the majority in the Council. The two parties jointly have 28 seats, out of a total of 55, one more than the cumulated number of the Social Democratic Party, 16, the National Liberal Party, 8 and the Greater Romania Party 3. The returns of the local elections confirm the channeling of the electorates’ votes nation wide towards the 3 big parties: the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party, as well as the turn to the left by voters in Bucharest, which in the last 19 years, has been a stronghold of the right wing.
Romania’s economic growth will step up this year, unlike most of the states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, a report of the World Bank says. The Bank’s estimates for 2008 are optimistic in this respect, forecasting a 7.5% growth. Foreign investment has had a positive impact in this sense, its value doubling in the first 4 months to reach 3 billion euros. The authorities estimate that foreign investment will amount to about 8 billion euros by the end of this year. Economy and Finance Minister Varujan Vosganian said that foreign investment had connected Romania to the international markets and had played an important role in the domestic economic growth because it entailed the development of management, bringing in new technologies and creating new jobs. According to Vosganian, in the next 5 years, Romania will invest 50 billion euros in the upgrading of road and railway infrastructure and the energy sector. The authorities in Bucharest have announced that a new investment law will soon be passed, which should present to foreign business people the areas of interest to the Romanian state, including fiscal incentives. The government believes that in the next period, the key element for the Romanian economy is a cautious fiscal policy and a gradual cut in the budget deficit.
Romania’s football squad have failed to qualify for the quarter finals of the European Championship jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria. Romania came third in Group C, after the Netherlands and Italy, being followed by France. The result is honorable for Romania. Its draws with the world vice-champion France and the world champion Italy are something of an achievement for the Romanian team that had been considered a victim in this “death group”. In their last match in Bern, Romania lost 0-2 to the Netherlands. Manager Victor Piturca:
“ It was a good tournament. We had a dream... We could have qualified. We could have made history in this generation of footballers that had not managed to qualify on any other occasion. And of course, we would have stood the chance to go further.”
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