League I: Bleak leg for Steaua and Dinamo
Dinamo and Steaua, the two traditional great powers of Bucharest football, lost their leg 28 games against Gloria Bistrita (2-3) and Rapid (1-5). Rapid dominated the whole game, especially the first half that ended with an astonishing 4-1. Steaua did not come to its senses in the second half and conceded another goal. The result has taken to fever pitch the open conflict between fans and the club’s leadership. However, head coach Mihai Stoichita believes the race for the title is not over. CFR Cluj tops the standings with 55 points, followed by Steaua with 52 points. Steaua nevertheless has an extra game to play. CFR Cluj played an away game against FC Timisoara on Monday evening, after the closing of this edition.
Marian Iancu gets 7-month suspension
Marian Iancu, FC Timisoara’s financier, has been suspended for seven months for ‘making slanderous statements against Ioan Igna,’ the president of the Romanian Football Federation’s (FRF) Central Commission of Referees. The decision was made by the FRF’s Disciplinary Commission. “Marian Iancu, FC Timisoara’s President, has been suspended for 7 months and fined RON 150,000 for making slanderous statements against Ioan Igna,” a release from the FRF reads.
Ghioane scores
for Dinamo Kiev
Romanian international Tiberiu Ghioane has scored the winning goal in the game that Dinamo Kiev played at home against Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, score 2-1. Konoplianka opened the score for the visitors in the 18th minute but Dinamo Kiev won the game thanks to the second half goals scored by Magrao and Ghioane. Dnepr played one man down for over an hour after Mandziuk was sent off in the 26th minute. Ghioane started playing in the 55th minute. This is the fourth goal that Ghioane scored for Dinamo this season, with his team being on top position in a tie with Mircea Lucescu’s Shakhtar Donetsk. Shakhtar defeated Zakarpattia, score 1-0 (goal Gladky).
Tennis: Goran Ivanisevic wins in Barcelona
Croatia’s Goran Ivanisevic has won the ATP Champions Tour in Barcelona, a tournament for veterans, after defeating Sweden’s Tomas Enqvist, score 6-4, 6-4. Joan Balcells finished on third place after defeating South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira, score 6-0, 6-3. Spain’s Sergi Bruguera and Sweden’s Mickael Pernfors also took part in the tournament. This was the fourth tournament of the veterans’ circuit. Austria’s Pat Rafter won the Delray Beach tournament, Sweden’s Stefan Edberg won the Zurich tournament and Sweden’s Tomas Enqvist won the Bogota tournament.
Cycling: Visconti wins Tour of Turkey
Germany’s Andre Greipel won the 8th and last stage of the Tour of Turkey, finishing the 158.5 kilometre stage in 3 hours, 41 minutes and 40 seconds. This was his 5th stage win in this edition of the Tour. The 2010 Tour of Turkey was won by Italy’s Giovanni Visconti who wore the leader’s jersey for almost the entire race. America’s Tejay van Gerden finished on second place (+22 seconds) and France’s David Mancoutie finished third (+33 seconds).
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MPs waiting for SRI report
on 2009 before discussing 2007
and 2008 documents
The Permanent Bureaus of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies approved yesterday a request made by the commission for the exercise of parliamentary control over the activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) to postpone debates in plenum over the SRI activity reports on 2007 and 2008 until Parliament receives the report on 2009 as well.
“As the SRI will send us the Activity Report on 2009 when it is ready, we are asking for debates over the outstanding reports on 2007 and 2008 to be postponed and (the documents) to be submitted to the plenum of the two Houses of Parliament together with the SRI activity report on 2009,” said the chairman of Parliament’s SRI Commission, Cezar Preda (PDL), quoted by Mediafax.
Deputy Mircea Irimescu takes
distance from ‘independents’ group’
Suceava Deputy Mircea Irimescu yesterday announced that he assumes “independence from the group of independents” he previously belonged to, arguing he is a member of PNTCD and the so-called ‘group of independents’ is doing party politics.
“I am a member of PNTCD and they are politically acting like a party, rather than an independent group,” said the Suceava County deputy. Irimescu explained he is incompatible with the independents’ group – in its current formula. PNTCD member Mircea Irimescu ran the 2008 parliamentary elections on the list of PNL, under a protocol between PNL and PNTCD, then left PNL and returned to PNTCD, joining the group of independent legislators.
Klaus Iohannis re-elected at the helm of FDGR
The mayor of Sibiu, Klaus Iohannis, was re-elected, on Saturday, at the helm of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR), acquiring 27 votes in favour out of the 28 expressed by delegates. According to a FDGR press release, Iohannis’s candidacy was proposed by the party’s board, and the mayor of Sibiu was the only candidate for presidency. “It is an honour for me to lead the German Forum for a third term. I propose to continue to do all that needs to be done to promote the interests of the German minority and to become involved in the solving of problems as they arise. For instance, now the education bill is a current issue, but there are other problems which require the president’s involvement,” Iohannis said.
The mayor of Sibiu has been the president of FDGR since 2002. According to official statistics of the party, FDGR has 40,000 members of German ethnicity and 10,000 sympathizing members, of different ethnic backgrounds.
Traffic restricted in Bucharest today
Road traffic will be restricted in the centre of the Capital today, morning to around midnight, in the Romanian Athenaeum area, during a series of manifestations organized by the Israeli Embassy to Bucharest. Police advises drivers to avoid the mentioned areas, between 9:00 and 23:00. Representatives of the Embassy organize a ceremony to mark Israel’s Independence Day.
PDL says would depoliticise public radio and television management
Yesterday, after the National Political Bureau meeting, PDL Vice-President Gheorghe Flutur said during negotiations with UDMR partners over depoliticising the public radio and TV stations, an agreement had been made that the members of the Boards of Directors of both organisations would be appointed by the civil society. ‘We would like the rest of the parties to consent to it’, Flutur said.
He further stated that the draft law that was with the Senate and that PDL was supporting was making a distinction between the offices of Chairman of the Board and of General Manager of SRR and SRTV.
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Mobile blood collection
venues
Health Minister Cseke Attila yesterday said he intended to improve and encourage the blood donation system as they do in all the EU member states and in other countries. Cseke Attila made his statement during the opening of the first three mobile blood donor centres out of a total of five the Ministry of Health had acquired and which will be all operational in June. ‘The intention with these mobile collection venues is to develop people’s civic spirit and encourage donation’, the minister said. Romania is almost last in the EU as per capita blood giving, Cseke Attila further said. The Ministry of Health has procured five mobile blood donor venues to be operated in co-operation with the Romanian Red Cross Organisation, under co-ordination by the National Institute of Haematology. The buses the ministry bought last year will serve as mobile donor centres in both urban and rural areas, sparing donors the hassle of travelling all the way to regular centres in county capital cities or in Bucharest.
Businessman seeks French Village deal scrapped, EUR 160 M in damages
Businessman Costica Constanda demanded yesterday, in the trial initiated at Bucharest Court, the annulment of the contract with Bucharest City Hall on the French Village field and buildings, as well as approximately EUR 160 M worth of damages.
By a contract signed in 2008, the businessman was granted, for the 28,500 square metre field he owned in Bordei Park, a field of the same surface in the area known as the French Village, as well as the buildings on it, belonging to the private estate of Bucharest City Hall. Constanda’s lawyer said, on Monday, that the businessman demanded the annulment of the contract with Bucharest City Hall, because the project regarding the Area Town Planning (PUZ) required by his client in order to build a number of 28 metre-high blocks in the French Village was not approved by general councillors. The lawyer explained that the city’s General Council had discussed the PUZ on two occasions, but hasn’t yet approved it. On the first session of the trial yesterday, Bucharest Court adjourned discussions to June 14, because of the absence of procedure with Bucharest City Hall.
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Romania reports steepest construction
output slump in EU in February
Compared with January, Romania in February registered the steepest construction output slump in the European Union – 13.8 per cent, with the index having lost 2.9 per cent in the entire EU bloc, Eurostat report states. To Romania, this is the second consecutive decrease after two months of reported growth. Out of the 13 EU member states covered by the Eurostat report, construction sector output dropped in seven, stagnated in one (the Czech Republic) and was up in five in February compared to January. Except Romania, the biggest monthly decrease in construction output was reported by Slovenia (9.2 per cent) and Spain (6 per cent) and the biggest monthly rise by Hungary (6 per cent), Portugal (1.4 per cent) and Germany (1 per cent). Romania reported the third biggest decrease of annual construction output in the EU in February, by 26.9 per cent, after Bulgaria (30 per cent) and Slovenia (28.7 per cent). The same index was 10.2 per cent down in the entire EU. The activity was only up in the United Kingdom (5 per cent). Compared with January, construction output in February was down by 3.3 per cent and, compared with February 2009, down by 15.2 per cent in the euro area where the biggest EU economies are.
Gov’t approves budgets for MTI companies
The Government has approved revenue and expenditure budgets for 16 companies under the command of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Mediafax informs. Thus, the 2010 budget subsidy for the Romanian National Highway and Road Company will amount to RON 4.43 bln, 3 per cent below the level set at the beginning of last year for 2009, of RON 4.57, which was raised subsequently to RON 5.06 bln. CFR Goods aims at equal amounts of revenue and expenditure, at RON 1.2 bln, so that profit will be null, after the RON 321.52 losses reported in 2009. The average monthly wages of employees of the Romanian Aeronautic Authority was approved, rising 4.2 per cent compared to last year, from RON 7,019 to RON 7,318. At the Romanian Administration of Air Traffic Services – ROMATSA -, the approved average monthly wages of employees is 6.4 per cent higher than last year.
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GarantiBank has new social office
The central office of GarantiBank International N. V. – the Romanian Branch was moved to a new address, on the premises of the Novo Park office block, the F Building, a press release announces. “Due to GarantiBank’s rapid expansion during the past years, the space allotted to the central office gradually became insufficient compared to the bank’s need for continued development,” Murat Atay, General Manager of Garanti Bank, said. The space rented by GarantiBank in the Novo Park building covers over 4,300 sq m, distributed on two floors, where over 300 employees work. At the moment, GarantiBank has a network of 51 agencies, 21 of which are in Bucharest, 100 cash machines and over 5,000 POS terminals.
BNR: A bid for the partial revamping of the central office
The National Bank of Romania (BNR) will organize a bid for a contract to transform, decorate and refit spaces on the first floor of the institution’s central office, as well as the installation of two elevators, works amounting to RON 6.71 M, minus VAT, according to Mediafax. The time allotted to the works will be a maximum of eight months since the concession of the contract. BNR has organized several bids so far for various works of revamping the central office, including, among the latest, a bid for a contract estimated at RON 3.75, minus VAT, to arrange, decorate and refurnish the Kiritescu Hall. Moreover, BNR granted several contracts for modernizing works last year, including one to continue construction and installation works in the institution’s 25 Lipscani street building, amounting to RON 16.23 M, minus VAT, a continuation of a contract signed in 2005.
Taxi drivers’ protest cancelled
Bucharest City Hall did not approve the protest which two associations of transporters and taxi drivers wanted to organize between April 22 and 26, arguing this would have gravely affected road traffic and the activity of public institutions. The two entities are the Professional Association of Taxi and Car-rental Transporters (APTI) and the Federation of Romanian Transport Operators, displeased with the fact employees of the Direction of Transport within Bucharest General Mayor’s Office (PMB) refuse to extend taxi licenses, expired at the end of February. Another source of discontent is an article in OUG which bans taxis from parking in any other town or township than the one they are licensed in, so that taxis licensed in the Capital will no longer be allowed to transport passengers from Otopeni Airport, which is in Ilfov County, or to the commercial centres in the same county. The City Hall suggested a solution to FORT, which the association rejected “for reasons to do with the lack of impact”, is stated in a release from the federation, and remitted to the media.
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