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| The Week in Review 15-21/11/2010 |
| (2010-11-19) |
| Last updated: 2010-11-22 13:10 EET |
The ruling coalition in Romania, made up of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and the National Union for the Progress of Romania, has this week decided to request the Government’s responsibility for the unified payment law, which involves a vote on confidence in parliament.
This is required for the drawing up of the 2011 state budget. On November 22nd, the new draft will be sent to the Permanent Bureaus of the two Chambers of Parliament for approval. The announcement has been made by PM Emil Boc, who claims that, with the new law, state employees, whose incomes were reduced by 25%, will recover a large part of the money.
Prime Minister Emil Boc: “I can confirm that there will be an important recovery of 2010 salary losses and that a rise in the minimum wage will take place, in line with the inflation rate.”
The principle underlying the future unified payment law rules that equal incomes be granted to equal positions, which also solves the incentives problem, which will only be granted according to efficiency criteria, as of 2011. In another move, the Prime Minister said that next year, he would carry on with the “natural layoff” policy.
In 2009, following talks with the IMF, the Romanian government issued an emergency ordinance whereby it suspended the possibility for people to fill state administration vacancies through contests or admission tests. The Prime Minister added that he hoped the pension law, expected to ensure the system’s sustainability, be voted by the Chamber of Deputies, in two weeks at the latest.
A large-scale investigation that could lead to several high-ranking layoffs within the Police department followed the killing of an underground leader in the Eastern Romanian city of Piatra Neamt.
The head of the Neamt County Police Inspectorate, Aurelian Soric is accused of complicity with the underground world. Soric rejects the allegation. Interior Ministry State Secretary Dan Fatuloiu has called on Interior Minister Traian Igas to sack Soric, as well as the head of the Romanian Police, Petre Toba. The state secretary cites flawed management.
This week, two missions of the European Commission have assessed the progress made by Bucharest in the field of the Judiciary and air border control. This comes as Romania is expected to join the Schengen area in March 2011.
Conclusions regarding the Judiciary will be included in an intermediate report that will be published by the European Commission early next year, while conclusions relating to border control will be known in a month.
Romanian officials consider that Bucharest has completed its accession assignment, but there are countries which believe that Romania’s Schengen entry should be postponed. Romanian Justice minister Catalin Predoiu traveled to Brussels on Monday, to discuss the so-called Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification.
He called on European leaders to show an honest and non-political approach, insisting on the fact that no relation should be drawn between the Schengen area accession and the stage of reforms of the Judiciary.
President Traian Basescu believes that, as of 2013, Romania will no longer have the ability to protect its own air space, because it has not been able to contract the required amount of planes that could replace the MIG 21 Lancer to be written off in 3 years’ time.
The statement was made by the president in the wake of the NATO summit to be held in Lisbon, aimed at adopting the Alliance’s new “strategic concept” for at least a decade. The concept also includes the anti-missile defense shield and relations with Russia.
According to the Romanian President, Bucharest upholds the development by NATO of an anti-missile defense system in Europe, in cooperation with Russia, but rules out the installment of Russian ballistic equipment on Romania’s territory.
Bucharest is hosting the 17th Gaudeamus International Book Fair. The event brings together renowned names of contemporary literature, 380 publishing houses and organizations and will host 400 book launches.
This edition’s guest of honor is the Wallonia-Brussels region from Belgium, considering that Belgium is holding the Council of the European Union in the second half of the year.
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