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National Press Review, 21 September

Articles from the dailies Jurnalul Naţional, România Liberă, Evenimentul Zilei and Adevărul.

National Press Review, 21 September

Articol de Mirela Ursachi, 21 Septembrie 2011, 17:37

''Neither Finland wants Romania inside Schengen'', the Jurnalul Naţional headlines, showing how ''the government in Helsinki gave in to the insistence. Of the Netherlands'.'

The article quotes: ''European sources stated yesterday, for Mediafax, that at the meetimg of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, which is going to take place tomorrow in Brussels on Romania’s and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area, Finland and the Netherlands will vote against.''

''As in the case of the Netherlands, internal political reasons seem to lead Finland to oppose to the Schengen enlargement with Romania and Bulgaria'', the newspaper notes.

The România Liberă sticks to the same area of ​​interest: ''27 tests for Schengen.''

The publication considers that "The Tulips war" is likely to extend, given that the samples taken from shipments stopped at the border were sent to the laboratory yesterday and the analysis will take at least three days, which means the results will be made public after the summit deciding Romania's accession to the area of ​​free movement.

Among the accusations of blackmail coming from the Dutch officials, the authorities have invoked the need for plant health checks and denied any connection of the Dutch veto to Romania's accession to the Schengen area. The trucks with plants, bulbs and seeds coming from the European Union still remain stuck at the border, the newspaper writes.

The Evenimentul Zilei presents exclusively ''The backstage struggle for the City Hall: Oprescu's blacklist'' and comments that the PSD Bucharest branch is the loser of the partnership between the USL co-chairmen and Mayor Sorin Oprescu. However, the daily lists who are the ''undesirable persons'' of Oprescu.

The Adevărul brings into attention the aspects of the new labour laws.

Under the headline ''Companies obliged to employ people with disabilities'', the publication states that a company with more than 50 employees must have 4 percent of the employees people with various disabilities, a law which the leaders of the employers’ associations agree with.

Otherwise, companies will pay the equivalent of state minimum wages that they would have paid if they had had such employees.

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

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