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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 15-21/03/2010 |
| (2010-03-19) |
| Last updated: 2010-03-22 13:41 EET |
Romanian prime minister Emil Boc came up with a new package of anti-crisis measures in parliament on Tuesday, in an attempt to support the business environment and the labor market. The package includes such measures as eliminating taxes on reinvested profit, allotting guarantee funds for small and medium sized enterprises, and exempting companies which hire unemployed people from paying social contributions. The Social Democratic and Liberal opposition has criticized what it called the superficiality and lack of efficiency of the anti crisis measures that have been issued by the government so far. The observations made by the opposition are confirmed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which writes in a report that the aforementioned decisions failed to produce the estimated results, although Bucharest authorities took out massive foreign loans. The reactions of the employers’ associations and trade unions are still split.
Romanians working in the state and private systems took to the streets this week because of the anti-crisis policies pursued by the Romanian government and by its legislative initiatives. Protest movements took place in Bucharest and other big cities across the country, but many others were temporarily postponed after negotiations with representatives of the government and employers’ associations. Public transportation companies were the first to give up their protests, after they were given assurances that the way licenses are granted will be changed and a unified law will be adopted in their field of activity. Employers of the subway system in Bucharest gave up their overall strike after trade union leaders signed a new collective bargaining agreement.
However, trade unions in the education system didn’t give up protest movements. Unionists decided that as of March the 22nd, teachers will no longer give marks to pupils and will boycott national exams. On March the 25th, trade union federations will organize a rally and a march in Bucharest. Teachers threaten to call on overall strike, for an indefinite period of time, in June, and thus will freeze the school year. They call for the payment of overdue salaries and urge the government to give up on the massive layoffs due in September. In another move, on Thursday the government launched the new education law, which will be publicly debated. It provides for a curriculum meant to create competence, a greater involvement of parents and local authorities in the educational process, the decentralization of the education system.
On Friday, the government of Romania launched a national programme for tractor and farming machinery renewal. The amount earmarked for 2010 is 100 million lei – some 24.5 million Euros. As many as 17 manufacturers of tractors and self-propelled farming equipment have been selected to take part in the programme. Owners who want to have their old tractors scrapped and replaced with a new one receive a voucher accounting for about 50 per cent of the price of a new tractor. Scrapped tractors must be at least 10 years old.
President of Romania Traian Basescu Tuesday met with representatives of the Social Democratic and National Liberal parties in the opposition, for a new round of talks on amending the Constitution. In previous days, opposition politicians had walked out on the consultations, protesting against the presence of the so-called parliamentary group of independent MPs, made up of former Social Democrats and Liberals who had left their parties to support the Liberal Democratic government. Basescu voiced willingness to mediate all suggestions regarding the revision of the Constitution. But he did make it clear that he would not disregard the will of the Romanian people, as expressed in the November 2009 referendum, with respect to the shift to a single-chamber parliament of 300 MPs at most. Except for the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party, all other dialogue partners support the current two-chamber parliamentary system.
The carmaker Dacia, a member of the French group Renault, Thursday officially launched the first Romanian SUV model – Duster. The new car was first presented two weeks ago in the Geneva international car show. The vehicle may be purchased on the Romanian market for prices ranging between 10,500 and 15,600 Euros, depending on the version and add-ons. The sixth Dacia model, the Duster, will be sold in Europe, Turkey and countries in North Africa.
The pipe organ of the Radio Romania Concert Hall, the largest in the country and one of the largest in Europe, was played for the first time in Bucharest again, after comprehensive restoration works. The public attended a special concert given by the famed British organist Jennifer Bate. Built in 1960 in former Czechoslovakia, the instrument has over seven thousand pipes and 80 registers, and the repair works, carried out by its manufacturer, took several months to complete.
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