National Press Review, 1 June

‘Fight at the bedside of the sick’. The ADEVĂRUL reads that the proposition of the President of the National Health Insurance House, Lucian Duţă, to change the admission criteria in hospitals has generated a huge scandal in all health care system. Minister Cseke Attila rejected the new rules and this way all day yesterday the two leaders have been supporting their own theories and were called at the government to settle the conflict.

The topic ‘mayors elected in the first round’ (decision which was taken yesterday at the Chamber of Deputies) is debated upon by today’s newspaper. ‘The electoral law, amended under the pretext of funds economy’, the ROMÂNIA LIBERĂ reads. But chances are that next year we have mayors elected with only a few dozen votes.

The ADEVĂRUL is more acid: the newspaper considered the law to be ‘stupid’ and says that the mayors elected in the first round won’t have legitimacy.

On 1 June, the ROMÂNIA LIBERĂ doesn’t forget it is Children`s Day and writes about the kids we don’t think about that much. ‘Cancer in children, 90 percent curable’. Why not in Romania also?’, the newspaper headlines in the opening of the issue. The shortages in the health care system obliges Romanian doctors to perform miracles in order to give the little ones who cannot get abroad, a chance. Here, the main problems are the supply of medicines and the outdated equipment.

The topic of the day on the continent is the E. Coli bacteria, which has produced so far an alarming number of deaths and illnesses. The JURNALUL NAŢIONAL: ‘Europe is shaking with fear faced with the Spanish cucumbers’. The EVENIMENTUL ZILEI: ‘The killing cucumbers are actually coming from Holland or Denmark’.

The Europeans fumble around in search of the origin of the E. Coli vegetables and argue among themselves, while the number or victims is growing, the JURNALUL NAŢIONAL assesses. And also the JURNALUL adds: A strong immune system and the strict compliance of hygiene rules protect us from the bacterium.

Returning home: the CURIERUL NAŢIONAL publishes today ‘the map of possible price increases in maintenance’, and the EVENIMENTUL ZILEI announces that the ‘heat invoice could increase with 150 percent’ and asks ‘What to do?’. To this question, both newspapers are giving the same answer: the investment in our own heat plant seems acceptable, but the bureaucracy of disconnecting from the central heating system is immense.


Translated by: Manuela Stancu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University