Loading ...The MPs of the budget-finance commissions have endorsed on Sunday morning a series of amendments to the 2010 state budget draft law, among which the cancellation of the minimum taxation, the endorsement of a cut quota, of 5 percent, of the VAT to the building constructions and a 3 percent taxation on the micro-enterprises revenues.
The parliamentarians have also decided to oust the VAT non-deductibility for automobiles, the Jurnalul National writes. The 2010 state budget is severely criticized because it didn’t suffer a construction with the face ‘turned to the business milieu’, but supports in particular the interests of the public bodies, the Adevarul reads.
The near National Liberal Party (PNL) congress, which is to take place most probably in May, makes some of its leaders to transmit messages by which they are trying to say that they are not responsible for the presidential campaign’s mistakes or the party’s remaining in the Opposition. The obligation of the PNL is to be a radical opposition party, on Sunday declared in a news conference the party’s leader Crin Antonescu. In his opinion, the Liberals duty is to withstand the offensive and political clientelism, the Jurnalul National reads.
The PNL vicepresident Relu Fenechiu explained for the Gandul daily: I wanted to show the party or outside the party that we (the PNL) have no problem in jumping in to the governance, but PD-L has. They (the PD-L) will never be able to answer our absolutely logical demands, they only want us to be a part of the PD-L Government as an adornment’.
The first external visit on 2010 of the Romanian president Traian Basescu will take place on a …Romanian land as well, in Bessarabia, to Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, with the occasion of the 160 years anniversary of the absolute and militant for the Greater Romania Romanian Mihai Eminescu, the national poet.
A reason of maximum hysteria for the Russian press, which labeled the Romanian head of state as ‘the secret enemy of Russia’. One of the most important radio station in the Russian speakers’ space, The Echo of Moscow, has minced Traian Basescu, starting from the latter’s ancient declaration ‘two states, one people’, which defined his opinion about Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
In Bucharest, the Realitatea TV station promptly transformed itself into Vox Moscova, by endlessly resuming the mocking and the Russian venomous attack whose background has one single ‘explanation”: Traian Basescu is the first and only president of Romania who had an active attitude towards Bessarabia, who promoted the cause of the Romanian Bessarabians, the daily Curentul reads.
The proximity of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Congress made the Social-Democrats in the territory to forward ideas of the most bizarre for the reformation of the party. While, at the core of the party, the PSD members propose solid analyses to find the reasons of the failure of Mircea Geoana in the presidential election, some of the county organisations’ leaders table the variant that the party’s leadership be taken over, until a Congress is staged, by the leaders of those branches which won the December scrutiny, the daily Gandul reads.
These days, the Social-Democrats shouldn’t focus on who is going to be the new leader, but on the reform, and some team changes do not shatter a party like PSD, the honour president Ion Iliescu says, as quoted by the daily Cronica Romana.
The future elections inside the Liberal-Democratic Party (PD-L) brought the party to its boiling point at all levels. The leader Emil Boc is cornered in the past few days from several parties.
From the local level, the mayors and the county councils’ leaders are fighting for the budget money, the branches have started to fight for the secretaries of state, and the leaders in Ardeal (central and western Romania) have declined any negotiation as regards the decentralized state utilities with the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) until Monday, when Emil Boc and Marko Bela summoned them to Bucharest.
The Ilfov County incites the Premier against Gabriel Oprea, by threatening with an en bloc resignation. From Brussels, the Romanian MPs publicly reclaim the party’s becoming oligarchic, according to the daily Evenimentul Zilei.
The Chamber of Deputies’ secretary, Sever Voinescu, on Sunday night said that for now the PD-L needs new rules and new people, since it became a large party which now has a premier and ministers, meaning huge responsibilities, the daily Ziua reads.
Privatisation brought in 2009 no money to the state budget, whereas in the previous years the sale by the state of the companies in its portfolio fetched consistent incomes. The institutions in charge with the privatisation, AVAS and OPSPI, have ticked the year 2009 as a year without achievements.
Uncertainty regarding the fate of the the State Assets Realization Authority (AVAS) and the merger of the energy sector into two giant companies capable to integrate all of the producers will further prevent the privatisation in 2010 as well, the daily Jurnalul National reads.
The Public Finance minister says that ‘in 2010, taxes will stay the way they are now. It will be the first year with the hope to rise again’. And all this while, in the past few days, when discussing about the crisis budget, the govern proved to be more and more imaginative with the solutions of increasing the state’s revenues. The following were tabled: the taxation of the big incomes, the fast-food, soft drinks and sweet products’ taxation, in order to name the most eccentric ones.
A survey carried by the World Bank shows that each year the Romanians have to pay no less than 113 taxes, which is double as compared to the Serbians and 56 times more than the Swedes. Besides they are so many, we cannot even pay them quickly, as the time allotted is 72 hours per annum, meaning three days and three nights of queuing, the daily Azi reads.
For three days now, the Matei Bals Infectious Diseases Institute is stormed by people scared from the new flu virus. The Public Health minister, Cseke Attila, makes an announcement to alleviate the population, saying that there are enough vaccine doses against the A/H1N1 pandemic virus, as over 1.3 million doses are to be distributed countrywide, the daily Jurnalul National reads.
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