National Press Review, 4 March

At the beginning of his week, the dailies have revealed information about the violent acts in Afghanistan and about the Romanian citizen that has been killed during the attack on UN’s offices.

‘In Florida, a sick man burns the Koran and his behavior ends in a tragedy at Izvoarele Sucevei, Romania’ as the Gândul outlines. Last week, the leader of a radical Christian group in the United States set fire to a Koran copy. As a consequence, there took place violent protests in Afghanistan where died seven United Nations’ foreign employees including the Romanian Moţco Filaret.

The Adevărul brings out, ‘one American’s insanity cost him his head’. The daily’s team was in Suceava, Romania, at the birthplace village of the one whom the Foreign Minister called ‘an officer with an impressive career in international institutions’; moreover, the daily reveals moving testimonies about Moţco Filaret to those that knew him.

The România Liberă points some of the aforementioned Romanian expert’s career landmarks and the Evenimentul Zilei records world leaders’ responses to the violent attack on United Nations ‘mission in Afghanistan.

Let’s take a look upon other daily topics. We keep on with the Evenimentul Zilei: ‘IMF requires us to clean up public companies’. International founders push the Romanian Government to cut down the number of public companies due to high subsidies that they receive and to their four per cent debts out of GDP.

The Adevărul was curious about finding out how many times milk price would increase ‘since having been milked until being brought on the market’. The answer was five times because ranchers sell one liter of milk with about ninety bani and eventually consumers buy it with almost five lei. Traders explain that by higher costs of packaging.

The România Liberă advertises an interesting survey titled ‘Brussels, lobbyists’ paradise’. As there lacks European regulation, Brussels has become a kind of paradise mainly for the great multinational corporations and emulates Washington DC for the title of lobby’s world capital.

Beside the European institutions there are hundred of public relation businesses and law firms which are not considered ‘European business offices’ serving other hundred companies that should represent and defend their private interests.

We end by the Gândul that introduces us the ‘Samurais in Fukushima’. Over six hundred people work out the issue related to the decontamination of the plant though they are aware of the fact that they run the risk to die either quick due to irradiation or later due to cancer. However, they go on doing their job and they seem prepared to give their life for the sake of Japan’.


Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University