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National Press Review, May 29

Articles from dailies Evenimentul Zilei, România Liberă, Adevărul, Azi, Curierul Național, Bursa and Ziarul Financiar.

National Press Review, May 29

Articol de Octavian Begu, 29 Mai 2012, 10:37

Government does not give up the clawback tax announces Jurnalul Național , though manufacturers, distributors, patients associations and pharmacists say that, in its current form, the tax leads to amputation the compensated and free medicines list. The Executive says, instead, that it will seek to improve the mechanism in order to facilitate the implementation of the tax.

Romanian victory in Cannes or the art defeats the low quality oriental-like song( manea) headlines România Liberă that presents the film director Cristian Mungiu, awarded for the film “After hills”( După dealuri), and his actresses give us a new occasion of pride. Adevărul devotes an entire page of the two start-ups in the cinematography awarded for their performance at the festival in France.

The same newspaper announcing the beginning of enrollments for the eighth grade students for modern languages test papers. The exam is required for those wishing to follow the high schools in Bucharest with bilingual teaching.

The first Minister going to prison, headlines Evenimentul Zilei which concludes that, after 9 years of lawsuits, Ioan Avram Mureşan will stay seven years behind bars. And he still awaits the Caltaboşul file.

Also Evenimentul Zilei reveals the documents that show Nyiro Jozsef was a notorious fascist. According to records, he was an irredentist radical and State Safety seeking him in 1940. From Today we learn that Prime Minister Victor Ponta will discuss about the statements of some Hungarian officials on the subject of the poet reburial with his counterpart from Budapest, Victor Orban.

România Liberă tells us how the Inspectorate for Constructions changed its mind in the Nastase case after the arose scandal on this topic. Thus we learn that the institution had come back upon its decision to no longer require the payment of compensation in file .

Curierul Naţional informs us that the European Nabucco project could be cancelled completely. It is cited the Agency Itar-Tass, according to it the holding British Petroleum has disqualified the gas pipeline as the route of delivery of the natural gas extracted in Azerbaijan.

Ziarul Financiar reports that yesterday was a day of respite for the leu-euro currency, after eight banks have taken from BNR 8 billion lei. And Bursa speaks of a new maximum lending granted for banks , with appreciation that the Greek banks would need liquidity. The same newspaper notes that the euro recovered field against the dollar and Greeks were united against the director of the IMF(International Monetary Fund).

Football tops allow arrests, according to Jurnalul Național, that announcing the arrest in Italy of the former goalkeeper of Petrolul Ploiești for matches rigging.

Translated by Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University

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