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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 22/02-01/03/2009 |
| (2009-02-27) |
| Last updated: 2009-03-02 12:52 EET |
The hostile attitude shown by a part of the media as well as by some Italian politicians towards the Romanian community in the Peninsula, after a number of attacks committed or attributed to some of its members, has stirred anxiety in Bucharest. Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu underscored at his meeting with his Italian counterpart, Franco Frattini in Rome that the series of crimes attributed to a small number of Romanians must not have repercussions on those observing the law and contributing through their work to economic growth in Italy. Diaconescu firmly rejected any staving off of Romanians’ right to free movement, invoked by Italian journalists.
“ We are talking about European citizens with equal rights and obligations throughout Europe, both in terms of responsibility towards the criminal law in all EU member countries and of responsibility for people’s right to be protected by the law of the country in which they live and work. I can equally ask for the Italian authorities’ answer to the Romanian nationals falling victim to similar crimes. Crime has no citizenship, crime has no nationality.”
On Friday, Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu paid his first visit to Moscow since he took over office, for talks with his Russian counterpart, Serghei Lavrov. Recently, Romanian president Traian Basescu described the relationship between the two countries as a “half-failure”. He said that Bucharest wanted pragmatic relations to be set up with Russia, economic relations included. The Russian side took interest in the strengthening of cooperation in fighting terrorism and organized crime and in boosting cooperation within international organizations. Romania and Russia have divergent standpoints, particularly on the recognition of the independence of the pro-Russian Georgian breakaway regions of Abhazia and South Ossetia and on Ukraine and Georgia’s ambitions to get NATO membership.
The Romanian government has approved three new legal codes: the Criminal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Civil Procedure. Prime Minister Emil Boc believes that the amended codes will upgrade the entire Romanian justice system and will allow for…
“A smaller duration of trials in courts, especially of suits of a civil and criminal nature; lower costs related to justice administration and lower costs covered by citizens for the act of justice. Thirdly, the provisions of the Criminal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Civil Procedure are now in line with the European norms in the field. The adoption of those codes meets the demands of the European Commission for those norms to be completed, so that the monitoring of the justice system may be lifted.”
The three codes are going to be submitted to Parliament for debate according to an emergency procedure, but they will take effect no sooner than 2010.
The US State Department’s annual report on human rights practices in the world describes corruption in Romania “as a highly extended” problem, also mentioning Romanians’ lack of confidence in the capacity of the judiciary to enforce the law impartially. The report also denounces the ill-treatment applied to inmates and gypsies by the police and the gendarmerie, the improper conditions in prisons and mental hospitals, the acts of violence and discrimination against women, human trafficking with a view to sexual exploitation and forced labour. The report also criticizes the slow pace of the return of the properties belonging to the Greek-Catholic Church confiscated by the communists in 1948.
According to the financial rating agency Standard & Poor’s, Romania, Bulgaria and the Baltic countries are the East European states most exposed to the risks triggered by the global crisis. The agency says that the economies in the region suffer because of the big debts in hard currency, with lack of funding from foreign banks. Standard & Poor’s believes that dependence on foreign funds and the deepening current account deficit create the premises for a severe regional crisis. The IMF believes that the central and East European states will not default on payments. In another development, in an unprecedented joint move, the governors of the central banks of Romania, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have simultaneously conveyed a message of support for their national currencies.
The sculpture Madame LR by the famed Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) on Monday was sold for 29 million Euro at an auction at Christie’s in Paris. According to Christie’s vicepresident, Francois de Ricqles, that was Brancusi’s last wooden sculpture, that was part of a private collection. The piece, which was never shown on the market in nearly one hundred years, was part of a collection of over 700 art works belonging to fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent and his friend Pierre Berge.
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