National Press Review, December 13

The main topics in today’s newspapers are: the present economic situation, the possible next year’s developments and the current policy with emphasis on the Marko Bela’s retirement from administrating the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR).

The title of the four page file that the Adevărul publishes at the beginning of this week is: ‘Governments’ play with Romanian budgets’.

The Government spends 70 percent of its revenue on social assistance and on public workers’ salaries.

According to the daily’s forecast, in the last decade no state has restored the balance. The long-term provision has completely lacked.

The Evenimentul Zilei makes some ‘prophecies for 2011’.

The daily reveals that the financial churn will get to an end but recovery will be slow and will depend on the end of other European Union states’ meltdown. The unemployment rate will not drop and we will not get rid of deficits.

As for the unemployment, the today’s Gândul states: ‘Government stopped paying indemnities for the jobless that reject the jobs granted by the National Agency for Employment’.

This decision will come into force on January 1st, when the unemployed will have to make a choice between the government’s offer and the cutting down of indemnities.

As for the current policy of the weekend, the today’s newspapers comment on the Marko Bela’s decision of giving up the run for the leadership of DAHR.

What’s next? The Gândul writes that Kelemen Hunor ,who has the best chance for administrating the Union, runs for the Democratic Liberal Party, while the expected candidate, Laszlo Borbely, runs for the Democratic Socialist Party.

Kelemen Hunor asserts and argues: ‘we will certainly achieve the local autonomy of the Szekler Land. There are local communities with very distinct social, economic and cultural aspects and their desire for autonomy affects neither the local independence nor to the local integrity nor state’s sovereignty.

Finally, Laszlo Tokes, with whom the România Liberă begins its edition, believes that Marko Belas’ retirement from DAHR leadership might not change anything if the next leader were Kelemen Hunor, about whom Tokes asserted that he was ‘an epigone of the present Union’s leader’.

In a one page interview in the România Liberă, Member of European Parliament Tokes also speaks about the autonomy, this time, on the entire Transylvania and according to the politician’s conviction, it is an autonomy supported by enough Romanian people.

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