{"id":124428,"date":"2016-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/the-week-in-review-31-10-06-11-124428.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:45:37","slug":"the-week-in-review-31-10-06-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/the-week-in-review\/the-week-in-review-31-10-06-11-id124428.html","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Review 31.10 – 06.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The strike of the healthcare staff has been declared illegal<\/strong><\/p>\n


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\n
\n <\/p>\n

The
\nBucharest Court on Thursday ruled that the strike of the healthcare staff held
\nearly this week was illegal. The decision can still be appealed, but it is
\nbinding. The magistrates thus agreed with the Health Ministry officials who
\nclaimed, among other things, that the trade unionists’ action did not comply
\nwith the legal conditions for starting a labor conflict. The healthcare staff
\nwent on strike on October 31, asking for higher salaries and better working
\nconditions. On November 1st the protest was suspended, after the
\nparliamentary committees approved a pay rise for the healthcare staff and the
\ntrade unionists received assurances that the amendments would be voted in the
\nplenum of Parliament next week. The labour minister, Drago\u015f Paslaru, has warned that these pay rises could
\naffect the country’s economy.<\/p>\n


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\n
\n <\/p>\n


<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government criticizes the pay rises and the
\nelimination of charges proposed by Parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The
\nRomanian government believes that the pay rises and the elimination of more than
\n100 charges, as proposed by Parliament proposals, will have a negative impact
\non next year’s state budget. <\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

Dacian
\nCiolo\u015f: As
\nis customary for Romania’s Parliament before elections, a number of measures
\nhave been passed in recent months, which raise salaries for various categories
\nof public sector employees, without thorough previous calculations. The total
\namount of money stands at around 9 billion lei, that is more than 1% of the
\nGDP.<\/em><\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

The budget
\nimpact of the populist laws voted before the elections amounts to 2 billion
\neuros, which will lead to either a deeper budget deficit or to a reduction of
\nthe funds to be allotted for investments. Moreover, the imbalances between
\nseveral categories of state employees will increase. If the bills are passed in
\nthe form wanted by Parliament, the Government will challenge the salary law at
\nthe Constitutional Court. In the run up to the December 11 elections, on
\nTuesday the MPs in the joint budget – finance and labour committees amended the
\norder on the salaries of state employees and introduced new categories of staff
\nin the education and healthcare systems that will benefit from pay rises or
\nbonuses, although salaries in these fields have already been increased in the
\npast year by an average 30%. These pay rises were announced shortly after the
\nMPs passed a draft law on the elimination of more than 100 non-fiscal taxes,
\nincluding the radio and TV license fees. <\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n


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The government sets maximum levels for
\nmandatory motor-vehicle liability insurance policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

Wednesday’s
\ndecision by the Romanian Government to impose certain caps, for a period of 6
\nmonths, on the mandatory car liability insurance policies, has triggered
\nconflicting reactions depending on the interests of the sides involved. The
\nNational Union of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies notified the European
\nCommission on the 6-month freeze on car liability insurance prices, claiming
\nthat the measure infringes on the principles of free market and competition as
\nstipulated in the Romanian Constitution. On the other hand, road carriers have
\nhailed the measures passed by the government. Moreover,
\nthey call on Parliament to issue a new insurance law in these 6 months, before
\nthe expiry of the government’s ordinance on capping car liability insurance
\npolicies. Transporters also ask for the future law to ensure total transparency
\nas regards the calculation of tariffs for all categories of vehicles held by
\nnatural persons and legal entities. The insurance companies that will sell
\ninsurance policies at prices exceeding the maximum value set by the government
\nrisk big fines. New regulations in the insurance field were adopted by the
\ngovernment after the protests organized by transporters. They have frequently
\ncontested the very high prices they had to pay especially for trucks and the
\nfact that car liability insurances policies are growing by the year.<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n


<\/strong><\/p>\n

Criminal prosecution to expand in case related
\nto the 1989 anti-communist revolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

Almost 27 years after the fall
\nof the Ceausescu regime, army prosecutors have expanded in rem the
\ncriminal proceedings in the so-called Revolution case to investigate crimes
\nagainst humanity committed after the 22nd of December 1989.
\nProsecutor Marian Laz\u0103r
\nexplains the reasons of this decision. <\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

Marian Lazar: It transpires from documents that are part of the case that,
\nin order to hold on to power, through their actions and measures, the new
\npolitical and military leadership instated after the 22nd of December
\n1989 caused the death, gunshot injury, physical and psychological damage and
\nunlawful deprivation of freedom of a large number of persons, actions that fall
\ninto the scope of crimes against humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

The actions in question point
\nto the existence of a plan aiming to create a state of confusion among the
\narmed forces and thus enable the new leaders to take over power and acquire
\nlegitimacy. According to a document from the Military Prosecutor’s Office with
\nthe High Court of Cassation and Justice, more than 1,200 people were killed in
\nthe events of December 1989, of whom 800 died after 22nd of
\nDecember, when the regime collapsed. More than 5,000 people were wounded and
\nseveral thousand unlawfully deprived of freedom and subjected to bad treatment.
\nThe reopening of the Revolution case, which earned Romania a series of
\nconvictions at the European Court of Human Rights, comes a few months after
\ninterim prosecutor general Bogdan Licu called for the reopening of the
\ninquiries. According to Licu, the ruling to close the case in October 2015 was
\nungrounded and illegal, and the legal classification of the deeds was wrong.<\/p>\n


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