National Press Review, July 30

As expected, the referendum grasps the attention of newspapers: what to expect from now on, because the IMF comes to Bucharest, and what segment of the population influenced decisively the results. But we learn from newspapers and how will last the drought and about the huge damage from Transport Ministry.

"The Referendum on the razor’s edge" writes România Liberă on its front page.

"Whatever the result, Romania will be monitored severely", we read more here: "If, by now, our country has benefited from a lenient attitude on the part of the Union European and us, now we must look forward to a much less friendly attitude. "

Still do not know the official results, but Adevărul thought that Traian Băsescu will return at Cotroceni : "Voters have said BYE,Romania said PAS".

The PDL’s strategy of absenteeism would not have succeeded without the help of ethnic Hungarian voters.

As we could see, the counties with the lowest attendance have been Harghita and Covasna .

Jurnalul Naţional writes that "Romanians were called to vote for normality".

Many have responded, but as many have chosen to boycott the referendum.

Evenimentul Zilei accuses USL for electoral tourism, multiple votes, intimidation and pressures and titrated on the front page: "No matter how much they stole, still lost!"

"Political Circus will continue" and in the months that follow, at least until the Romanian parliamentary predicted Cronica Română.

The political war entering now the phase post-election referendum and the stakes will be above the interests of the population.

After the referendum," IMF arrives at Bucharest to assess the damage made by the political tensions in the economy", we read in the newspaper.

Romania must halt political scandal because its extension will swell the bill by increasing funding.

Just keeping the deficit under control will give a message of stability, think the analysts consulted by newspaper.

About an issue that it could still persist about two months: we read in Evenimentul Zilei as according to meteorologists say drought in August and September will worsen.

"We will die of hunger or not this year?" asks Evenimentul Zilei.

Instead to take urgent measures to ensure that prices do not go off in the months to come, the Minister of Agriculture prefer to play the card of population calming.

And in Adevărul , we read that "Compensation shall be supplied only in the autumn."

Declaring calamity or state of necessity as it is required by farmers, it is insufficient: farmers must come up with a financial calculation, otherwise can not be determined the support. So money will be given early in October.

"Robbery of hundreds of millions of Euros at Transport Ministry " writes Jurnalul Naţional.

Results of audits have revealed illegal payments, inflated costs for work done with delays and theft. Only at the CFR, for example, it was discovered the damage of nearly 9 million euros. 166 of wagons have been stolen.

In Curierul Naţional we read that "Leul sicks pharmaceutical companies".

They may not raise the required medicines, so we need to find other methods: focusing on exports and on pills without prescription, technical unemployment in Romania or closing the representatives in România.


Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University