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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 14-20/09/09 |
| (2009-09-18) |
| Last updated: 2009-09-21 18:54 EET |
The government in Bucharest made up of the centre-right Liberal Democratic Party and the left-wing Social Democratic Party on Tuesday request of Parliament to hold a confidence voting on the intensely debated bills on education, single payment for state employees and the reshuffling of state agencies, bill meant to reform state institutions. According to prime minister Emil Boc, the bill on education will place the emphasis on abilities and student evaluation, a more flexible school curriculum and descentralisation.
As for the salaries of state employees, the new draft law brings more equality to the system. Boc also argues that the reform of state agencies will save the crisis-hit state budget 215 million euros this year. The government’s request for a confidence vote in Parliament has been criticised by the Liberals in opposition. Together with the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians, also in opposition, they filed a no-confidence motion over the bill on the single payment scheme for state employees, a motion which will be debated next week. Also unhappy with this bill, several trade unions in the state sector picketed the government building and threatened to go on a 1-day strike at the beginning of October.
On the same day that the Government asked Parliament to hold a confidence vote, president Traian Basescu also made an address in Parliament on domestic policy issues and looked back at his 5-year term in office which is now drawing to an end. Traian Basescu:
“The Romanians elected a president who would take on the mission to take Romania into the European Union, modernise the country and help reform its institutions. I fully took on this mission. Over the last 5 years, I have worked to carry through this mission. I have never hesitated to criticise the state institutions or politicians who blocked essential reforms for Romania’s modernisation. Unfortunately, my actions have too many times been seen as attacks. I have called things as they are because Romanians want a president who tells the truth.”
Referring to the things he has failed to achieve, the president listed the absence of a constitutional reform and the lack of confidence of the European partners in the Romanian justice system.
The new school year started in Romania on the 14th of September amid protests by teachers, unhappy with the way their salaries are calculated in the new bill on the single payment system. The new school year also saw some changes related to the way in which pupils are evaluated. 8th form pupils will no longer have to pass standardised national tests, as they will be replaced by international evaluations for the Romanian language and literature or the language of ethnic minorities for ethnic minority pupils, and mathematics. The baccalaureate exam will have two stages: the obligatory testing of linguistic communication skills based on the grades received by pupils throughout the year, and 3 obligatory exams at the end of the 12th form: the Romanian or ethnic minority language and literature, mathematics or history, depending on the school’s profile, and a subject of the pupils’ own choosing.
Prime minister Emil Boc on Wednesday and Thursday went on an official visit to Italy, where a community of Romanians one million strong lives and works. Their situation and bilateral economic cooperation were the main topics of a conversation in Rome between Boc and his counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi. At the same time, talks focused on the strategic partnership, considering that Romanians and Italians are celebrating this year 130 years of diplomatic relations. During this visit, PM Boc was also received, in a private audience, by Pope Benedict the 16th, whom he thanked for the support that the Catholic Church offers Romanians in the diaspora, especially in Italy.
Starting on 18 September, Romanian citizens no longer need to get a visa to travel to the Republic of Moldova. Confirmed interim president, liberal Mihai Ghimpu, speaker of Parliament, signed the executive rescinding the previous decision to impose visas for Romanian citizens voted on April 9th by the previous government in Chisinau, which at the time accused the Romanian government of being involved in the street protests caused by accusations of fraud in the elections that kept the communists in power. Romanian foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu said that the decision made by Moldova is a gesture of normality, which brings the two neighbors closer together.
Romanian football teams started on the right foot in the first edition of the Europa League. Dinamo Bucharest defeated 1-nil, in an away game, the Austrians from Sturm Graz, FC Timisoara managed to pull off a nil- all tie with Ajax in Amsterdam, while CFR Cluj beat at home, two-nil, FC Copenhagen. Steaua Bucharest, however, only managed a nil-all at home against Sheriff Tiraspol, from the Republic of Moldova. After the game, Steaua dismissed its Italian coach, Cristiano Bergodi. Also this week, Romania’s champions, Unirea Urziceni, lost away nil-two against FC Sevilla, in its first game in group G of the Champions League.
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