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| MEDIA HEADLINES 05/02/2009 |
| (2009-02-05) |
| Last updated: 2009-02-06 16:06 EET |
The Black Sea Concessions Cause Political Trouble, headlines the daily paper Adevarul, after Emil Boc, the head of the government made up of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party, gave green light to the declassification of an annex to a decision issued by the former cabinet which, in November, towards the end of its term, is said to have granted the Canadian company Sterling Resources exploitation rights for areas rich in oil and gas, valid for 30 years. The scandal started as soon as the International Court of Justice in the Hague issued a ruling on Tuesday, recognizing the sovereign jurisdiction of Romania on an area accounting for 9,700 square kilometers of the Black Sea continental shelf that was the source of contention with the neighboring Ukraine.
The newspaper Evenimentul Zilei is trying to find out who will benefit from this ruling and points to the Austrian consortium OMV-Petrom and Rompetrol, which has signed a contract with Sterling and in which the Liberal magnate Dinu Patriciu, an old friend of the former Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu holds 25% of the shares. “The Black Sea Will Go to Friends”, Jurnalul National headlines ironically, writing that Tariceanu handed Patriciu one last big deal. Curentul also accuses the former government led by Tariceanu of enriching a foreign company under suspicious circumstances and to the detriment of Romania, which was left with nothing. On the same note, the daily paper Ziua writes that the Tariceanu government looted the resources won by Romania in the Hague, giving them away to some obscure company, although big players on the international oil market like Total, Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum wanted to invest in prospecting for and exploiting the oil and gas reserves in the Black Sea.
Representatives of the National Liberal Party, now in opposition, are quoted by the daily paper Cotidianul as saying they rejected the allegations made by the media. They claim concession rights were first granted in 1992 and the Tariceanu cabinet only extended them. Cotidianul also writes that nobody can put their finger yet on what’s illegal in the concession contracts. Romania Libera explains why the infamous government decision looks suspicious. First of all, it has secret provisions not be known by the public. Moreover, the document does not bear the signature of the justice minister Catalin Predoiu, which was mandatory. Gheorghe Piperea, a lawyer specialized in international law, interprets this as a possibility that the entire contract might be on the verge of legality and hide some very ugly things.
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