National Press Review, November 17

"The epaulets anarchy – an unprecedented fight inside the interior Ministry’, the Evenimentul Zilei quotes.

Although his superiors required him to quit after the bloody fight between the underworld gangsters, the chief of the Police Department in Neamţ doesn’t want to give up his job at all.

The Adevărul reveals: "Police, a shield against underworld gangsters".

The heads of the Police Departments chiefs are asked only after murders or other violent crimes have been committed. Otherwise, complicities are ignored.

The Adevărul states that locally well known friendships between underworld gangsters and police officers, always take aback the chief officers in Bucharest.

The Jurnalul Naţional outlines the edition topic: "Stop the nightmare of dream shops!"
Herby, the daily starts a media campaign addressed to youngsters, most of them being tempted to try the poisons called "ethnobotanical".

The Jurnalul Naţional warns that the smoke that one breaths into his lungs is neither "ethno’ nor "botanical" nor "bio’; it is not even "cool".

"Ethnobotanicals" are powders created in laboratories, some kind of harmful or even lethal chemical disasters.

The România Liberă goes on with its series of incognito articles and, today, writes about "tax heavens from the street corners": Currency Exchange companies, where fiscal evasion seems to be a common practice.

Only one out of ten currency exchange companies in Bucharest, where the România Liberă reporters wandered to exchange either twenty or thirteen Euro, issued vouchers.

The România Liberă adds "certainly, not the currency exchange companies themselves determined the onset for the downturn but counting all that means fiscal avoidance or black economy turns into a third of the public money.

The Gândul begins with the following article: "nearly 700 Romanians have cars worth over 200.000 euros.’ Luxury cars are only 6 percent of the aggregate driven in Romania.

The most expensive cars in the country and in the world (except for, of course, collection items) cost over one billion and a half euros.

The Gândul states that "the young man to whom the car belongs and who drives it is disappointed about one thing: he is tired of being left behind in dust clouds by the Logan cars which pass by him when he drives according to regulation."

Today’s article ends with the interview of the day in the Bucharest press, that is covered in the Adevărul Artistic şi Literar.

"We don’t have money to show off with a Mercedes," Act Theatre director Marcel Iureş declared, "but we are not talking here only about expensive cars."

He asserts that the institution he runs is a useful bicycle offered to the community rather than a luxury vehicle.

Financial gaps work as an engine, according to Marcel Iureş, but the success of Act Theatre is due to the beauty and the naturalness of its own productions.


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