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| The Week in Review 30/05-06/06/2011 |
| (2011-06-03) |
| Last updated: 2011-06-10 21:31 EET |
New measures in the Romanian healthcare system
The Health Ministry on June the 1st announced the introduction of new regulations concerning hospital funding in Romania, most of them aimed at ensuring the good functioning of the system and eliminating drawbacks. The measures mainly focus on ranking health institutions in keeping with their competences as well as on the introduction of new ways of funding them. According to health minister, Cseke Attila, changes operated in the process of funding these institutions will bring along major increases in the budgets of big, high-performance hospitals, also entailing cuts in the budgets of the medical units offering low-quality services. All the 350 public hospitals have thus been ranked in five categories but only seven medical units have found their place in the first category of high-competence medical institutions. Another 220 medical units have been included in the low-ranking category of institutions. According to the health ministry, all these 220 institutions have got a downward rating because of their failure to provide certain medical services. In another development, the family physicians’ refusal to sign the new framework contract in 2011 has resulted in a series of setbacks. The document, supposed to come into effect on April 1st, was eventually postponed until June the 1st, but the parties involved have failed to reach an agreement yet. According to the Health Ministry and the National Health Insurance House the physicians’ claims have been met only 95%, whereas the president of the Romanian Family Physicians Association, Doina Mihaila pretends that many claims have not been met at all.
Proposals to amend the Romanian Constitution
The President of Romania, Traian Basescu, has submitted for approval to the Legislative Council a draft law on the revision of the Constitution. The main amendments refer to changes to be operated in Parliament, which has to become a unicameral body, and to the reduction of MPs from 471 to 300. The proposals came following a referendum initiated by the president himself in 2009, when 80% of the Romanians stood for a unicameral legislature and for a lower number of MPs. The draft includes amendments concerning the Parliament procedure of impeaching the president and that of dissolving Parliament. Under the new amendments, the government would be able to seek only one vote of confidence in Parliament during one parliamentary session, the budget deficit would have to stand at 3% at the most. Another proposal is to exempt state authorities that enforce the state’s fiscal policies from any legal restrictions. After getting the green light from the Legislative Council, the draft will be forwarded to the Constitutional Court and then submitted to Parliament for debates.
The Romanian Parliament has decided that mayors should be elected in just one round of voting
Following a decision made on Tuesday by the Chamber of Deputies, in Romania mayors will be elected in just one round of voting. Tacitly adopted by the Senate, the law is only to be promulgated by president Traian Basescu to become operational and be implemented starting the summer of 2012, when the next local elections are due. The pro-government majority invokes budget savings, while the opposition claims the new law is undemocratic.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has visited Romania
Italy reasserts its support for Romania’s joining the Schengen Area by the end of this year. The statement was made by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a formal visit to Bucharest. According to Berlusconi, the problems that occurred two years ago in relation to crimes committed by Romanian gypsies in Italy have been overcome, and the over one million Romanians working in the Peninsula are highly appreciated. Alongside his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc, Berlusconi chaired in Bucharest a Romanian – Italian inter-governmental meeting. The agenda of talks focused mainly on the Schengen issue, on political and economic cooperation and the significance of the Romanian community in Italy. Emil Boc has voiced hope that the existing restrictions on the Italian labor market for Romanian citizens will be eliminated.
A controversial representative office of the so called ‘Szekler Land’ was established in Brussels
A representative office of the so-called ‘Szekler Land’, a Romanian region inhabited by a majority ethnic Hungarian population, but with no administrative identity, has been recently established in Brussels. The Hungarian Ambassador to Bucharest, Oskar Fuzes was summoned on Tuesday by the Romanian Foreign Ministry, to provide clarifications as to the Hungarian Regions’ House in Brussels hosting this representative office. The office was set up at the initiative of three Romanian counties: Harghita, Covasna and Mures, with the declared intention of attracting as many European programs as possible. The initiative was supported by three euro MPs, members of the co-ruling Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, but has triggered criticism in the country. The Romanian Foreign Ministry has termed as regrettable the fact that such a representative office of a territorial unit that has no legal status was established in Brussels.
Unprecedented sanctions enforced by the Romanian Football Federation
Romania’s football vice-champion FC Timisoara runs the risk of being demoted to a lower league, because of debts it has to the Portuguese team Benfica Lisbon and to the Romanian state. FC Timisoara did not get the license to participate in the first league. The owner of the Timisoara club, Marian Iancu, has called the decision an abuse and has announced he will attack it in court. Thousands of supporters protested in downtown Timisoara. A similar decision could be made in the case of Gloria Bistrisa, ranking 15th, which has also failed to pay its debts to the Romanian state. The Romanian Football Federation will make a decision on June 20th.
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