National Press Review, 26 May

Newspapers in Bucharest also read today about the arrests in the Constanţa Harbour and the way certain organizations, services and people have reacted or not before and after.

The România Liberă opens today’s issue with the question: ‘The end of two and a half’?

The Secret Service of the Ministry of Administration and Interior is accused of not reporting the penal problems of the former General Secretary Laurenţiu Mironescu.

DGIPI Constanţa – reads the România Liberă – should have known in detail the criminal activities of fraud and smuggling of the harbor organization.

They were very well known in the area, only that Minister Igas did not know, so he proposed Mironescu for the job.

The Evenimentul Zilei: ‘The recordings have handcuffed the harbor smugglers’.

The proof that led to the arrests in the ‘Constanţa Harbour’ scandal have been obtained from phone listening.

However, the ‘man at the end of the tunnel’, namely the one who benefits from this whole business remains still a mystery.

Otherwise, Mironescu states that it is all Berceanu’s business (in the Evenimentul Zilei), Banias would have obtained counterfeit goods in order to be generous with the Deaf Constanta Association (also in the Evenimentul), and – on top of all these – Mironescu and Banias haven’t been speaking to each other for two years now (declared for the Jurnalul Naţional, the very wife of General Secretary in the Interior, Mironescu), so which criminal group are we really talking about?

Other topics in today’s news.

The Adevărul: ‘Ion Iliescu denounces the European justice’.

The European Court of Human Rights recommends the Romanian state to take out and resolve old criminal cases concerning te victims of December 1989.

CEDO is – the former President of Romania states – an ‘outside of historical reality’ court.

The Evenimentul Zilei: ‘The bribe at the customs depleted us of 50 billion euros’. It is the amount which – the newspaper claims based on its own calculations – has been ‘spent’ in the customs since 1989.

We conclude with the Jurnalul Naţional, which dedicates today two entire pages to the actor Horaţiu Mălăele, a brilliant artist, ‘beloved’ by the audiences’ – the newspaper says.

Tears, sadness, laughter, burlesque, fantasy.

Laugh until you faint, grain smile, sarcastically grin.

As an actor – says about him Director Cătălina Buzoianu - Horaţiu Mălăele reached the peaks of perfection.


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