March 18, 2015
News and Current Affairs
Newsroom, 18.03.2015, 11:56
Dozens of miners employed by the Oltenia Energy Complex are protesting either by blocking themselves underground or by hunger strike. They protest the fact that the state company has announced they would lay off 2000 employees, paying a small number of severance salaries. At the same time, the over 1,200 employees of a quarry in Valcea County, recently taken over by Oltenia Energy Complex, have gone on work stoppage. The company and the unions continue the negotiations for the collective labor agreement for 2015. Management has already laid out a restructuring plan for this year and plans to sign the collective labor agreement by the end of the month.
Former head of the National Integrity Agency Horia Georgescu has been detained after the highest court of appeal endorsed the warrant submitted by anti-corruption prosecutors. He resigned after indictment in a case of abuse in office with damages to the state worth 75 million Euro. Georgescu is accused of involvement in the over-evaluation of property set for restitution, between 2008 and 2009, when he worked at the national institution supposed to be regulating the compensation of owners of abusively nationalized property. Also today, the judicial committee in the Senate votes on liftig parliamentary immunity for Dan Sova, former Minister of Transportation and Member of Parliament. He is also under accusation of abuse of office, in a case involing two state companies. At the same time, mayor of Constanta Radu Mazare has been released pending investigation. He is accused of bribes worth nine million Euro.
Over 25 Romanian companies attend the IT fair in Hanover, Germany, the most significant such event in the world. The RomaniaIT pavilion offers mainly software solutions for a large array of applications, according to the Ministry of Trade and Economy in Bucharest. This edition, ending on March 20, is attended by over 3,700 companies in 75 countries. Organizers expect the number of visitors to reach around 250,000.
