Radu Mazare Seeks Amnesty For Incompatible Local Officials
Constanta mayor and local Social Democratic Party leader Radu Mazare will ask the party’s leadership for amnesty for local officials already incometible with public office.
The party has an executive committee meeting in two weeks and Mazare wants to propose the annulment of articles regarding incompatibility with public office in Law 161/2003 and amnesty for local officials already in that situation. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Romanian President Renews Ship Captain License
Romanian President Traian Basescu has started classes at the Center for the Training of Naval Transport Personnel (CERONAV) to renew his ship captain license.
Training, which takes place at the presidential protocol villa in Neptun, on the Black Sea coast, will end next week.
The president has required a personal training program, which will be spread out over two weeks instead of the regular five days, and for which the president paid RON2,300 instead of the regular tariff of RON1,500. (Jurnalul National)
Eurozone Comes Out Of Recession
The eurozone has emerged from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction.
The bloc’s GDP grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2013, slightly ahead of forecasts, the Eurostat agency said.
The growth was widely expected after the German economy rose 0.7% between April and June. (Adevarul)
Romania Economic Growth Slows To 1.3% In Second Quarter
Romania’s economic growth slowed sharply to 1.3% in the April-June period, after an annual increase of 2.2% a quarter earlier, a flash estimate of the country’s statistics institute showed Wednesday.
In the first six months of 2013, the gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 1.7%, the data showed.
Compared with the first quarter of 2013, Romania’s GDP increased 0.3% in the April to June period. The economy grew at a quarterly rate of 0.6% in the first three months.
Detailed figures for the first-half GDP are due for release September 4. (Jurnalul National)
Magistrates Sentenced For Corruption Could Lose Special Pensions
Romania’s High Council of Magistrates will discuss next week a bill whereby magistrates sentenced for corruption will no longer be entitled to special pensions, the justice minister announced Wednesday.
Minister Robert Cazanciuc said the prime minister has requested the bill be sent to Parliament by September 1.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Tuesday in a televised interview the Justice Ministry was preparing a bill denying special pensions to magistrates with definitive sentences for corruption. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Businessman Dinel Staicu And Carmen Ioana Popescu Arrested For Bribing A Judge
The Bucharest Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the 29-day preventive arrest of businessman Dinel Staicu and Ioana Carmen Popescu, on charges of bribing judge Veronica Cirstoiu, also a defendant in the same case.
Staicu and Popescu, former general manager of SC BDJ Craiova, were detained Tuesday evening for bribery and accessory to bribery. The judge has also been placed under arrest. (Adevarul)