Financial Press Review, 1 June

The title of an article of the Curierul Naţional is: ’How is the future car tax?’

‘None of the variants of the first registration (or pollution or environmental - or whatever the environment ministry had called it) fee was not in line with European Union directives, a reason for which the officials decided to introduce another one’: ‘aberrant’ Afrodita Cicovschi, the author of the article wrote.

‘Probably to avoid triggering a new infringement procedure or simply to dodge the return of over 750 million euros to those who paid the amount and require it back, based on the decision of the European Court of Justice ...’

The Romanian Federation of Transport Operators considered that ‘the Romanian second-hand car owners who have purchased them before 2007 can not be bound by any law to pay a registration fee at the moment of the vehicle disposal, because they should have been aware of this obligation before purchasing the good and they should have been given the freedom to choose whether to purchase an used car or not.’

The Ziarul Financiar analyzed on a page to ‘halving the government spending on goods and services, a shocking little discussed proposal.’

The proposal contained the economic program of the opposition.

‘The purchases of goods made by the state is always a source of political arrangements and is one of the main sources of political clientelism,’ the newspaper annotated.

The Curierul Naţional opened with an article entitled ‘Map of livelihood rises.’

After the Government might decide not to subsidize the price of the gigacalory, the weight would be carried by the population and maybe by the local authorities.

‘In case none of these grant any money, the inhabitants in Bucharest and Cluj would be paying 2.5 times more than they do now,’ a study quoted in the newspaper revealed.

As a result, more and more Romanians opted for installing a flat central heating, which requires some more transparent legislation and disconnection procedures than now.

The Ziarul Financiar published an article entitled ‘Romanian employers barely find skilled workers, engineers and managers.’

‘Why companies fail to hire qualified staff?’, the Curierul Naţional asked.

‘A big problem is the exodus of skilled workers and specialists outside Romania,’ the newspaper quoted from a research done by a recruitment company.

‘The process of labor migration from Romania resumed its growth’, after it became more peaceful in the past two years.

‘An encouraging trend is that young people reduced their pretensions of becoming heads on the first day to at least being interns in order to gain experience’, the newspaper also noted.


Translated by: Iulia Florescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University