National Press Review, 17 November

From today’s papers we find out what to expect of the new Health Bill and what the transcripts reveal in the case of Geoană’s exclusion from the Democratic Social Party (PSD).


The new Health Bill shall take effect as of next year, so we might as well find out what to expect.

We read about “4 things that we must know” in the România Liberă.

In a nutshell, should we need something more than just a routine check-up and a few tests, we must have an additional insurance by paying a minimum of 10 euro.

We learn from the newspaper which medical consultations and tests will be free of charge provided we pay the contributions to the state and which are the medical services available through additional private insurance, also when we can sign contracts with the insurers and what to do in case we have no public or private form of insurance.

We remain in the same area of health when reading the Adevărul and its campaign “Doctors that we take pride in”.


The readers of the newspaper from 39 cities have voted according to their own personal experience the most prized physicians in Romania, those that do not condition the medical act on the amount of money received.

We read in today’s newspaper of the story of “the brain sculptor”, that of the military physician that cheats death in Afghanistan, and also about the specialist that treats lungs up high and who is the first doctor alive to have a statue built in his honor.

The Evenimentul Zilei presents "The transcripts of the meeting in which Mircea Geoană received his execution”: the way in which the trial took place inside the Integrity Commission of PSD.


It appears that the sentence existed prior to the meeting, so it was considered that it was no longer any need for hearing the explanation provided by the accused.

The President of the Commission, Dan Şova wasted no time in voting the exclusion from the party of the former leader PSD, despite the rumors that demanded him to also bring forth the reasons upon which the decision was based, is written in the Evenimentul.

Again transcripts in the Jurnalul Naţional: “For 50 thousand I don’t even get out of bed, you fool!” – quotation taken from the explanatory statement of the arrest sentence of Sorin Apostu, the mayor of Cluj.


We read the his business partner, Călin Stoia, also an accused party in the same claim, would request a 10% commission in order to intercede with the Government in cases of obtaining funds in favor of certain companies.

In the mayor’s case, we are brought to attention that he would take 4 000 euro from the melon traders for each authorized marketing space offered.

If we perform a simple multiplication, the result is a mere 50 000 euro illicit amount only for this year.


In the Curierul Naţional we read that "the food producers are sent to have some tests done”.

The Ministry of Agriculture asks them to reveal the technological stages and the composition of products.

The reaction of the Employers Federation of the field is filled with indignation: “nonsense, the networks are property of the producer!”.

For the consumers however, the advantage is that the so-called traditional producers will have no means of lying when saying that their products are natural.

Translated by: Bianca Toader

MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University