Government Grants Compensations To People Willing To Quit Smoking
The Romanian Government included on the compensated list of medicines all sorts of anti-smoking products in order to help people willing to quit smoking.
The Health Ministry put under public debate a draft order stipulating that the ministry will purchase in 2016, through centralized public acquisition, the medicines needed to fight tobacco consumption.
The draft also stipulates ensuring proper and continuous stocks of medicines, healthcare products and medical devices needed to carry out the national public healthcare programs. (Puterea)
Salini-Impergilo Left Orastie-Sibiu Highway Unfinished Even After Termination Of Contract
A day before the announcement regarding the termination of contract, Italy’s Salini-Impregilo sent an invoice of nearly RON2.78 million to Romania’s roads authority, for construction works on the Orastie-Sibiu highway carried out in the summer of 2015.
To date, Salini-Impregilo has cashed 99.7% of the contract value, namely, RON602.5 million from the Romanian state. In 2015, the company also cashed RON33 million from the Romanian roads authority for construction works on the third section of Orastie-Sibiu highway, and an additional RON67 million for the second section of Lugoj-Deva, which could be demolished due to the use of poor quality materials, just like in the case of the Orastie-Sibiu highway. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Bill On Giving In Payment Under Debate Again After February 1
The bill on giving in payment, which was sent to Parliament for re-examination by President Klaus Iohannis, will go under public debate again, after February 1.
Liberal lawmaker Daniel Zamfir, co-author of the bill alongside lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, said the bill is undergoing the last amendments.
Early January 2016, Romanian central bank governor Mugur Isarescu said that when re-examining the bill on giving in payment, the Parliament ought to consider the recommendations of the European Central Bank (ECB) as well, so that the bill can protect only those holding mortgage loans and no other persons.
On December 21, 2015, at the end of the parliamentary session, the Senate was notified of President Klaus Iohannis’ request to send back to Parliament for re-examination the bill on the payment of a mortgage loan with the mortgaged property (the bill on giving in payment). (Puterea)
President Iohannis Backs Idea Of Electing Mayors In Two-Round Elections
President Klaus Iohannis said he totally supports the idea of electing mayors in two rounds.
Iohannis added that parliamentary parties ought to make a decision in this respect.
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said he will discuss with political parties the idea of drafting an emergency ordinance regarding the organization of local elections in two rounds. Ciolos added he is looking into all possibilities regarding the implementation of such a measure. (Evenimentul Zilei)
MP Bogdan Diaconu To Run For Bucharest Mayor
Lawmaker Bogdan Diaconu, who was elected president of the United Romania Party, at the party’s first congress on Sunday, said he will run for the position of Bucharest mayor.
Diaconu said the party he runs will make no political alliances for the local and general elections due in the fall of 2016, because it was born as an alternative to the politicians of the last 26 years and wishes to completely change the old way of making politics in Romania. (Adevarul)