National Press Review, 29 September

"Deputies to begin attack against National Integrity Authority law", the România liberă headlines. The article shows the amendments performed yesterday on the enactment of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and gives details on the conditions under which certain contracts, at companies which the officials are shareholders, may be exempted from the asset declarations.

"Eastern Europe and ethnic powder keg", the Evenimentul Zilei writes about the Bulgarians’ protests against Roma communities. The newspaper points out that these events have not been neglected by politicians in Sofia, and gives details about the situation in the area and the intentions of the parties involved in the conflict. Also, there were reviewed similar situations of other countries.

Under the headline "Hell at Children's Hospital", the Jurnalul Naţional brings into focus the situation at St. Mary's Emergency Hospital in Iasi. This article describes the conditions of the sanitary unit and states that to existing problems there was recently added the lack of hot water.

What are the alternatives that patients hospitalized here use and what are risks they face you can read in the pages of the mentioned daily. Regarding the possibility of infection, the hospital manager said that, quote "the epidemiologist did not fire any warning signal that there might be an infection. We had problems with water before", end of quote. About the guilty, the same manager said to be CET Iasi and the local administration. The Jurnalul Naţional highlights that CET Iaşi stopped the hot water for the whole city, because of the debts of the gas providers.

The Adevărul examines "the chances of Cărtărescu to win the Nobel Prize" by showing the top of a British betting agency, where the Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu, ranks ninth among the favorites for the Nobel Prize for Literature. It seems, however, that Romanian scholars do not believe he might win, the publication added, and it quoted some literary critics who argue that this gambling is not relevant, and the chances of Cărtărescu to win this distinction do not depend on bets.

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