National Press Review, 6 October

In the Evenimentul Zilei, the President of the National Health Insurance House, Lucian Duţă, unveils the methods used to steal money from the Romanian people who pay for health. The system is fooled by "forced" admissions and fictitious prescriptions. The solution? The "Electronic prescriptions" that are to be introduced in a few months will eliminate fraud.

The Adevărul has two good news for us today. The NBR regulation for limiting consumer lending and real estate loans will not affect the First House Programme. We also learn that large companies are queuing up to invest in our country: 160 million euro and massive employment.

Instead, "state companies doubled their crisis debts", we read in the Ziarul Financiar. The balance sheets are disastrous for 15 of the 18 state companies monitored by the IMF. While at the end of 2008, the company had debts of just over 4 billion lei, on 30 July this year the amount rose up to 9.3 billion.

From România Liberă we find out which are the former Securitate and Romanian Communist Party activists who have received land, housing and commercial spaces for being revolutionaries due to the "Gratitude law". The Dunărea de Jos Society of Journalists obtained from the Galati City Hall the lists of beneficiaries. The surprises are incredible, according to the newspaper.

"Who will be in charge of National Arena" in the next 50-70 years? From the Curierul Naţional we learn that the City Hall today is to discuss the study of opportunity for farming out the stadium. It is searched a reputable investor with extensive international experience and experts, to pay a share of the profits and to guarantee the allocation of considerable financial resources at his own risk.

How can you increase you wealth by insurance companies? In the România Liberă we read about five citizens, limousine owners that staged the robbery of their own cars, which they sold them to Iraq and collected the insurance money.

"Beggars in London, lords in Strachina." The Adevărul reporters went to the outskirts of Ţăndărei and found real palaces with two or three floors painted in bright colors along a badly paved road. Fortunes were obtained from children sent to beg in the UK.

"Reforming the State: Civil Code at Cuca Măcăii". In the Jurnalul Naţional we can read how the villagers in Argeş interpret the provisions on partition, damages payment or breaking the engagement abusively. "Nothing new under the sun: marriage is dissolved again in court and the compensation is only available for rich people."

The grand lottery pot cannot bring happiness. The Evenimentul Zilei tells the story of "the most stupid insolvent of Romania", who wasted a prize of 1.3 million dollars. Psychologists believe that this is fate of the unearned money.

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