Household Gas Prices Might Grow 2% As Of July 1
The liberalization calendar sets a 2% growth in household gas prices starting July 1, but the energy watchdog ANRE is looking into whether the price adjustment is really necessary, ANRE president Niculae Havrilet said Tuesday.
“As of July 1, the gas market liberalization calendar sets a 2% price hike for household consumers but we will calculate and see whether we really have to apply this price hike,” said Havrilet. (Curentul)
Gross Revenue From Gambling Was EUR657M In 2012 – PwC
Each slot machine in a casino brings revenues of EUR1,000 a month and gambling agencies make EUR700 per machine.
Gross revenue from gambling, the gambled sum minus players’ winnings, stood at EUR657 million in 2012, according to a survey release Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The survey shows Romanians spend an average EUR21 a year on slot machines and bet EUR5 a year, considerably less than gabled sums registered in Italy, Germany, Spain or the UK. (Adevarul)
Expertize In Radu Mazare Case To Be Completed By May 27
The expertize in the case where Constanta mayor Radu Mazare is accused alongside 36 other people of the illegal attribution of land will be completed by May 27, the Bucharest Court of Appeals decided Tuesday.
Mazare was indicted by anticorruption prosecutors in this case on October 28, 2008, alongside former and current city hall employees and notaries public for the illegal attribution of land, defrauding the state and the city of Constanta of EUR114 million. (Curierul National)
Labor Ministry Proposes Raising Daily Food Allowance For Institutionalized People
Romania’s Labor Ministry proposes a 33% increase in the daily allowance for food for institutionalized children and adults, an average raise of RON2.3, according to a government decision.
A total of more than 93,000 people – children, mothers on welfare, institutionalized young adults, adults with disabilities, and institutionalized senior citizens – could benefit from an average extra RON2.3 a day allowance for food.
The bill is under public debate until June 10. (Adevarul)
Around 50 Children Died Of Pneumonia In The Past Five Months
Around 50 children died on pneumonia in the last five months because their parents didn’t have the money to get them vaccinated.
The vaccine should have been free. Authorities promised last year to ensure free treatment but, as with the list of reimbursed medicines, promises were on paper only.
Since December, when the vaccine should have been introduced in the national immunization program, dozens of children have died from respiratory diseases that could have been avoided with vaccination. (Curentul)