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| The Week in Review |
| (2012-06-29) |
| Last updated: 2012-07-02 16:12 EET |
Sentenced to 2 years in prison for corruption, with no possibility of appeal, former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase is now in prison.
Almost a week after him being sentenced to two years in prison for corruption, with no possibility of appeal, the former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, a member of the social-democratic party, is now in prison. After the judges gave their sentence, he tried to commit suicide and was taken to the emergency hospital in Bucharest, where he stayed a few days. Subsequently, 3 police officers involved in the case and one of the physicians, who personally took care of the former Prime Minister, are now being prosecuted for aiding and abetting the offender.
The policemen were accused of failing to complete the arrest warrant, and the physician, one of the best-known surgeons in the country, for having allegedly helped Nastase to postpone his incarceration. Later, the Bucharest Court decided to move Nastase from a civilian hospital to the hospital unit of the penitentiary. The first Romanian Prime Minister in the post-communist Romania sentenced to prison with no possibility of appeal has always claimed innocence and has repeatedly said he is the victim of a political process, started, he says, by his traditional rival, the current head of state, Traian Basescu.
Romanian President Traian Basescu attended in Istanbul the summit of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
Heads of state and government gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday at the summit celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. Attending the summit, Romanian President Traian Basescu said that the Organization needs to undergo a proper reform, but also more flexible decision making structures, which can give the green light to projects in the priority cooperation field. The president brought back to discussion the Black Sea Synergy, a project supported by Romania.
Traian Basescu:“I brought back to the discussion table the Black Sea Synergy, a project supported by Romania and adopted by the EU, which targets three major areas of interest for the European Union, namely environment, transport and energy. And this is how the EU distributed responsibilities: Romania for environment, Greece for transport and Bulgaria for energy.”
Traian Basescu referred to Romania’s energy projects: AGRI AND the Nabucco gas pipe line, with which the EU hopes to reduce its dependence on Russian gas imports.
The Romanian Constitutional Court has made some major decisions regarding Romania’s representation at big European meetings and the single voting law.
This week, the Constitutional Court of Romania has ruled with regard to two issues that have lately raised the general public’s attention: Romania’s representation at big European meetings, in particular the European Council this week and the single voting law. Notified by the presidency, the Court decided that the head of state is the one that should represent the country at the European Council meetings, mentioning that this responsibility can be specifically delegated by the president to the prime-minister.
Despite the decision of the Constitutional Court, social-democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta, currently in an open conflict with the head of state, went to Brussels, saying he represented Romania mandated by the Romanian Parliament and Government. In Bucharest, President Basescu announced he would not go to Brussels to avoid an embarrassing situation, including for the European partners that would thus have had to broker a national dispute.
The President said that Romania’s presence at the European Council is legitimate, while its representation is not. Basescu said that this was the first time in his 8 years in office when he was prevented from exercising his constitutional privileges. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court decreed that the single voting system, proposed and approved by the current power, is unconstitutional.
This initiative had been criticized by several NGOs and the Liberal Democrats, now in opposition, who also contested it in front of the Constituional Court. The single voting system mainly stipulated for senators and deputies to be designated following a single round of elections, with the elimination of the electoral threshold. Analysts believe this manner of electing MPs, never before used in Romania, would have allowed the Social Liberal Union, now in power, to easily obtain crushing majority in Parliament after the upcoming fall elections.
Romanian PM Victor Ponta, a member of the Social Democratic Party, attended the summer European Council in Brussels.
Attending the summer European Council in Brussels, PM Victor Ponta has said that Romania will not lose any European funds made available between 2014 and 2020, but he added that the country needs to improve it absorption rate, currently the lowest in the EU. Romania also gained some flexibility in allocating funds from one operational program to another, within the available limit, Ponta said. The PM also said that talks on this issue would be held in quarter two of 2012, when Cyprus will hold the Union’s rotating presidency. In Brussels, European leaders approved a compact to boost economic growth and create new jobs worth 120 billion euros.
June 28th marked 100 years since the birth of esteemed Romanian musician Sergiu Celibidache, one of the greatest conductors of modern times.
Celebrating 100 years since the birth of Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, one of the 20th century’s foremost artists in his branch, was included by UNESCO on its list of 2012 cultural events. On Thursday, Google also celebrated the event through a dedicated logo. Born on June 28th 1912 in Roman, a town in Eastern Romania, Celibidache earned worldwide fame as a conductor.
He led the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, the Radio Orchestra in Suttgart, the National Orchestra in Paris and the Radio Symphonic Orchestra in Stockholm. In 1979, he became general music director of Munich and permanent conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, which became one of the world’s best under his leadership. Sergiu Celibidache is also the author of an impressive requiem, four symphonies and a concerto for piano and orchestra. Many of his works have remained unequaled.
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