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| MEDIA HEADLINES 13/05/2010 |
| (2010-05-13) |
| Last updated: 2010-05-14 13:46 EET |
The daily Gandul titles: ‘The presidency and prefect’s offices stormed by angry pensioners’, after on Wednesday ‘in every city, a few hundred protesters’ pressed the authorities to give up on the shock therapy plan they claim will revive the economy. Desperate that, starting June 1st their pensions will be slashed by 15%, the paper adds, ‘our grandparents gave gendarmes something to worry about’. The pensioners broke police cordons, burned president Basescu’s photos, tried to hit a prefect, waved red communist flags, while quote ‘shouting irreverent slogans against party and state leadership’ unquote.
Jurnalul National writes that these tragi-comical clashes will lead to a quote ‘revolution of grandparents, triggered by applying the sacrificial curve’ unquote. Evenimentul Zilei, on the other hand, announces that ‘Romania goes officially into the month of all-out strikes’. Also furious, because their salaries will be slashed by 25%, public employees quote ‘threaten that, they will put on protests to put pressure on the government and the presidency, by the end of the month, when they might go on an all out strike’ unquote.
Teachers, on the other hand, have already announced that they will no longer grade students, and will close the schools on May 31st because they are going on an all-out strike for an indefinite period of time. Speaking to a newspaper, a union leader said that they will boycott the baccalaureate exam as well, adding that quote ‘we didn’t wish to do that, but the ministry and the government have pushed things beyond the point of no return’. Even though they are on the side of the government in power, Evenimentul Zilei writes that ‘precisely one week since president Basescu gave the signal to tighten belts, the government is still stammering and looking for solutions’. Every day, quote ‘the authorities are baffling the public with more taxes or with tax raises’, unquote, are slashing allocations for children and those of war veterans and former political prisoners, are raising taxes for a second home, and are taxing copyright contracts.
Everything, says the government, in the name of austerity and solidarity in a time of crisis. Adevarul publishes, without comment, a sample of austerity: in PM Emil Boc’s native village, with only 847 inhabitants, mostly elderly, a gymnasium with 150 seats is being built, for which the Ministry of Development allocated 580,000 Euro. The daily Gandul calls the government ‘beggars for solidarity’, and asks rhetorically, ‘Would it have been that hard to think about austerity last year, when you couldn’t come up with election tricks fast enough? Now you’re selling me lies about reforms, when in fact you’re digging into my pocket to pay your bill’.
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