Prime Minister Cholaku will be a great father-in-law next week. His son will get married in Buzău ● A grandiose scandal at the eSports Championship. Favorable vote for Russia at the IEFS Assembly. Ukraine withdraws from the competition ● Viorel Mikula, accused of ruining a businessman, after allegedly demanding black money from him to buy a hotel ● Mircea Cosea / Romania’s budget: a remnant of the command economy ● Commissioner accused of murdering a person and fleeing drove, washed the car after accidents ● A school from Vilch was fined for forming classes based on ethnic criteria

​Prime Minister Cholaku will make a great father-in-law next week. His son will marry a college colleague in Buzău

There is great joy in the family of Prime Minister Marcel Cholaka. At the end of next week, his only child Andrii Filip (24 years old) will marry Iris Alexa Constantinescu (23 years old). Yesterday, they submitted their documents to the Civil Status Department of the Municipality of Buzău.

The couple-to-be are fifth-year medical students at Ovid University in Constanta, and judging by photos posted on social media, they have been in a relationship since at least 2019. Iris Alexa from Kampulung Musel. , has a sister who just started college in Bucharest, and according to an article published by a local news site in February 2023, her mother is “very well known in the city” as a nurse in the emergency department, ReporterIS writes

A grandiose scandal at the eSports Championship in Iasi. Favorable vote for Russia at the IEFS Assembly. Ukraine withdrew from the competition

The scandal at the World Championship of computer games, which was held these days in Iasi. Representatives of Ukraine at the CS:GO competition withdrew from the competition as a sign of protest after the vote at the General Assembly of the International eSports Federation in favor of Russia. A meeting of the IESF General Assembly was held in Iasi the other day, reports 7Iasi.ro

Viorel Mikula, accused of ruining a businessman, after allegedly asking him for black money to buy a hotel

In 2018, a businessman from Hunedoara began to outline the plans of his dream: to have a hotel by the sea. Thus he concluded negotiations with Viorel Mikula about the terms on which he could lease, invest, and eventually buy one of the hotels owned by the Mikula family on the coast.

Due to the fact that the hotels of the Mikula family were closed, after the inspections of the Romanian public institutions, against the background of the lack of investment, there was simply clapping: a businessman from Hunedoara would invest in the Bâlea Hotel, he would put it on its feet and make it functional, he would exploit it for a while and, therefore, would buy it from Viorel Mikula for a bank loan. Everything seemed simple.

But over time, the businessman from Hunedor realized that clapping the hands of Mikula’s family is an almost irresponsible gesture. Now he has lost everything he had before, because he sold everything to invest in the Bâlea Hotel, and the hotel could no longer buy him, because during the negotiations on the purchase price he claims that he was blackmailed, writes the Investigation

Mircea Cosea / Romania’s budget: a remnant of the command economy

Although we claim that the transition from a centralized command economy is over and we live in a functional European market economy, reality contradicts us.

In our functioning market economy, some elements of the old type of economy continue to survive, which are no longer even subject to measures or policies aimed at adapting them to new conditions.

What is surprising is that instead of the post-1990 governments undergoing a process of transformation with varying degrees of determination and intensity, they persist as they were inherited from the pre-1990 period.

Even more surprising is the fact that all these governments have made efforts in the opposite direction, i.e. instead of re-adapting, at least gradually, the old elements to the new conditions of functioning of the market economy, they have been and continue to be concerned with the adaptation of the new economy to the mode of functioning remnants of a centralized economy, writes Curs de Governare

The commissioner, who is accused of murder and escape, was washing the car after the accident

Commissioner Zakornia, charged with manslaughter and hit and run, was washing the car after the accident, according to information in his criminal case. Vasile Zakornia, the former head of the Registration and Permits Service in Iasi, is suspected of involuntary manslaughter in the case of a local resident found dead on the side of a rural road in Holboka.

The body was found on June 30 with multiple head injuries and bruises, and police initially believed the man had been beaten and abandoned on the side of the road.

But Zakornya was on the short list of drivers who drove this road to his house in Ruse. The other day, the examination was included in an open criminal case, and the parties involved did not know about this document until the day before yesterday, writes PressHub

A school from Vilch was fined for creating classrooms in ethnic quarters

A school in Wilc County has been fined by the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) for segregation after it created separate classes for pupils based on ethnicity and place of residence. The fine applied to the high school “Luka Solomon” in the commune of Vaideeni is 2,000 lei.

“The action of Luka Solomona secondary school in Vaideeni commune, Vilcha county regarding the creation of separate classes of students based on the criteria of ethnicity and place of residence is indirect discrimination according to Art. 2 clause 3 of Art. 2 p. 4 in conjunction with Art. 11 p. 1 of the Order.

The board of directors decided to apply a fine for violation in the amount of 2,000 lei, a recommendation to implement Order no. 6134/2016 Framework for banning school segregation in units of pre-university education and providing a 6-month monitoring period to remedy the situation with discrimination. The declaratory decision was adopted unanimously by 8 votes, and the sanction was established by 6 votes “for” and 2 “against”, says the press release sent by CNCD, writes Reporter24.

At least 20% of settlements in Dobrudja have not received access to EU money and will not receive it in the near future / Limanu area, which includes the resorts of Vama Veke and 2 Mai, is the least digitized in the region

At least 21 town halls out of 121 in Dobrudja have never implemented a digitization project, 26 have already taken European money for this segment, and 39 have tried to attract funds from PNRR, these are the conclusions of the analysis. issued by ISE based on responses from 80 out of 121 town halls in Dobrudja. Other local self-government bodies did not respond to requests for public information.

The analysis also shows that dozens of city halls do not offer citizens the opportunity to pay taxes online, and only half of them have free Wi-Fi in public areas. Another conclusion: the city of Limanu, which includes the resorts of Vama Veke and 2 Mai, is the least digitized in the region, writes Info Sud-Est

A Romanian businessman who settled in Canada is suing ANAF

More than ten years after he left the country for good, a well-known businessman from Iasi is still wanted, but “on the basis of an individual”. Financial inspectors found that in 2013 he had more expenses than income, so they charged a tax difference of more than 200,000 lei. The entrepreneur paid in order not to be burdened with fines, after which he asked to cancel the act of control. Three years after the start of the process, he managed to get rid of three quarters of the debt charged by the Fisc, but the battle is still on, to the last lei, writes Ziarul de Iasi

Journalist from Belarus, sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment. The son was taken to an orphanage. 33 journalists behind bars

The Gomel Regional Court in southeastern Belarus sentenced journalist Larisa Shchyrakova to 3.5 years in prison after she was found guilty of “facilitating extremist activities” and “discrediting the Republic of Belarus.”

The journalist is accused of posting materials on the Internet that “discredit” the country, as well as of “collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information” to the Vesna human rights group in Minsk, as well as to the Belsat TV channel. in Poland.

On Thursday, August 31, the journalist was sentenced to 3 and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a fine of 3,500 rubles, Free Europe reports.

Why Romanians wear the shoes of criminals: we have too lenient punishments or the DNA of “smart people”

Recent tragic events in Romania, such as the explosion in Crevedia or the accident on May 2, once again make us afraid to live in our own country. We would like someone to find a solution, but until then we will justly blame the authorities. However, if we look at every accident that has happened recently in our country, we will see that there is a common denominator, that everything could have been avoided if the Romanians had not broken the law.

We have become accustomed to tragedies and have started watching the news like soap operas, thinking that whatever is there could never happen to us. Moreover, we tend to judge when we see how failure to follow the law leads to tragedy, but we never think about how many times we have been “in the shoes of a criminal”, writes Wall-Street.ro

Liquefied gas trade is illegal in Romania. Why the Crevedia disaster was a question of “when” rather than “if” and what needs to change

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is a fuel that has been used for a long time, first in the famous gas cylinders and then in road transport, from where they are pumped from those usually white cylinders (skids) into the tanks of cars with LPG installations in those specially arranged and permitted places.

The advantage for the driver will somehow be related to the price (a liter of liquefied gas costs less than twice as much as a liter of gasoline, for example), even if the car consumes a little more. On the other hand, this fuel is considered even more environmentally friendly, with lower emissions – in fact, for automotive LPG, we are talking about a mixture of gases – butane and propane.

All three Romanian refineries produce LPG and we also have terminals (Galați, Giurgiu, Midia, Mangalia) through which quantities of LPG are imported or exported. According to ZF data, national consumption will be about 400,000 tons, of which a little more than half goes to heating, writes Economica.net

European Commission: Romania is the one to decide on specific measures to achieve deficit targets

Romania is deciding on specific measures to achieve the deficit targets, a spokesperson for the European Commission told StartupCafe.ro on Thursday.

“Budget implementation for the first half of 2023 has been challenging, suggesting that some consolidation measures will be needed to meet the overall deficit target for 2023. Romania needs to decide what concrete measures need to be taken to reach the deficit target,” a European Commission spokesperson said in an emailed response to a StartupCafe inquiry.