Increasing the contribution to health insurance – an analyzed option ● Who are the patrons of electoral institutions before a year with four rounds of elections ● On the disadvantages of new apartments: Two lei give, two lei make ● It is a colossal mistake to dream of an economic boom. Governments ‘spending like drunken sailors’ ● PNL-PSD new gate for controversial real estate projects on public land ● Almost 900,000 employees not paying CASS ● How PM Çolaku started judging private companies through ignorance

Andrey Bachu, President of the National Health Insurance Fund: Increasing the contribution to health insurance is an option analyzed by CNAS

An increase in the contribution to health insurance is not excluded in the process of reforming the National Health Insurance Fund, CNAS President Andrey Bachu said on Europa FM.

This is one option being considered so that people can take tests for free on the day they want without being told that the allocated funds have run out.

At the invitation of Tudor Musat, on Tuesday night’s Piața Victoriei show, Andrej Baciu said that 6.2 million Romanians currently pay a 10% health insurance contribution, Europa FM reports.

Who are the patrons of electoral institutes on the eve of a year with four rounds of elections. Convicted for corruption, politicians, journalists

The results of surveys published recently on the pipeline sometimes collide head-on. One credits the AUR, a far-right party, with the first chance (27%) of making it to the European Parliament. A day later, another formation placed third. Who is behind the polls and what interest do the various numbers hide?

After 50 years of communism, immediately after the revolution, in the 90s, democracy brought the mirage of opinion polls to Romanians. Patrons of the institutes at that time were considered real monuments of science, even if sometimes they were considered close to some political parties.

The results provided by sociological institutes were very close to the election results. The 2000s brought an erosion of trust in opinion polls, writes Europa Liberă

The developer, about the shortcomings of new apartments: You give two lei, you make two lei

The quality of many residential buildings built after 2000 and up to today leaves much to be desired, as developers have also put price at the top of the list of most important criteria, leading to compromises in quality.

It all starts with the general desire of buyers, but also of most developers, to strive for the lowest price.

Developers understood that Romanians wanted to pay as little as possible for housing, so the market drove this trend. Emerging developers also looked at what the competition was doing to stay competitive. And in order to be able to sell cheaply, but still have a constant rate of profit, the cost of construction was also kept as low as possible.

The CEO of Speedwell claims that in Romania the average cost of construction was very low because the builders took the competitors’ projects as a reference to roughly see at what prices they sell in order to enter the market with competitive projects in terms of prices, he writes to Wall Street .ro

Bohdan Chiritsoyu, President of the Competition Council: “When more customer inquiries are made to the Credit History Bureau, their assessment becomes weaker, and the customer is considered more risky for banks

“Illegitimacy arises when the goal is no longer to protect the system from the customer who does not pay well, but becomes the goal to keep customers captive so that I do not let them go to other banks,” says the head of the Competition Council ♦ The Competition Council inspected ten banks: Banca Transilvania, BCR, BRD, ING Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, CEC Bank, Alpha Bank, Garanti Bank, Credit Europe Bank and First Bank ♦ In addition to the unannounced inspections carried out at ten banks as part of the investigation The Competition Council is also investigating the Credit Bureau and the Romanian Association of Banks, writes ZF.

Jamie Dimon, head of the giant JPMorgan, awakens even the most optimistic to reality: dreaming of an economic boom is a colossal mistake. Threats to the economy are everywhere

Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan, believes that although both the US and the world economy are moving in a good direction, it would be a “big mistake” for the governments of the countries of the world to be too optimistic and believe that the economic boom will last for years, writes CNBC.

Consumption data looks good and wage growth is supporting the economy, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t risks.

Dimon believes that the main threats to the economy are the way central banks manage monetary policy, the war in Ukraine and governments around the world that “spend like drunken sailors”, writes Business Magazin

A new gateway for controversial real estate projects on public land. PSD and PNL change the definition of “qualified majority”

The PSD and the PNL change the definition of “qualified majority”, a change to the main stakes when it comes to real estate projects built on land donated by municipalities.

PSD, PNL and UDMR senators have proposed an amendment with which they want to change the definition of a “qualified majority” when voting in local and district councils on major projects.

Senators took advantage of the debate on the government’s emergency order to amend the Administrative Code to introduce an amendment that would allow some land reconstruction projects or the alienation of some public facilities to pass more easily through local or district councils. , writes PressHub

Almost 900,000 employees do not pay CASS. Their contribution would mean more than a billion euros

The vice-president of the Alliance of Chronic Patients from Romania, Rosalina Lapedatu, called for the abolition of tax credits for the Health Insurance Tax (CASS), noting that they amount to around 4.8 billion lei (almost one billion euros) per year.

Several patient associations are asking the government to scrap the CASS exemption, which benefits 884,680 construction, agricultural and food industry workers.

“The benefits granted by the Romanian state regarding the payment of the contribution to the health insurance fund amount to approximately 4.8 billion lei, we are talking about the most famous professional categories, farmers, construction workers and the food industry, writes Spotmedia

As Prime Minister Cholaku began to judge private companies because of ignorance

The idea of ​​the current government to convert food stamps is wrong from many points of view. Actually, representatives of patronage in the field of hotels and restaurants also reacted by criticizing the government’s intention. Prime Minister Çolaku said he wants to replace vouchers with cash because “companies that issue these vouchers have achieved quite a high commission: 3% for issuance and 3% for collection.” In this case, the prime minister makes a double mistake. Once because the information he has is incorrect, in the sense that the level of commissions that Marcel Cholaku is talking about is exaggerated.

Worse than that, Prime Minister Cholaku assesses the profitability of some private sector companies. This has become an almost obsessive idea of ​​this government. Well, turnover is too high and profits are too low, tax optimization is abused, and the fees charged by food stamp issuers are too high.

The superficiality with which senior figures assess the business environment is infuriating. Without creating a workplace themselves, without knowing the intensity of competition in the areas in question, without taking into account the investments of companies and without understanding the specifics of some sectors of the economy that operate with low profit rates, RFI writes.

Analysis: Alliance vs. AUR odds. PSD+PNL=PSD?

The debate over the PSD’s talks with the PNL comes after Libertatea wrote that the two formations are holding confidential discussions on forming a Democratic Bloc to counter the rise of the AUR.

A recent poll conducted by INSOMAR highlights that the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) has taken first place. If the European Parliament elections were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for? 27% answered AUR, 25% prefer PSD, 15 would vote for PNL and 7% would put their stamp on USR, the rest of the parties are currently below the 5% threshold.

Extremism is on the rise in most countries of the European Union, not only for economic reasons, such as rising inflation, but also because traditional parties are losing credibility and ideas, and their main concern seems to be keeping their own score, their own people, and keeping them under by its influence on the main institutions, reports DW

​h2: Life in Hong Kong, a city where there is always a hierarchy

Knowing proper etiquette is important not only at dinner. It is important to show respect to everyone at work and in public. There is always a hierarchy; in a business setting, depending on the position of people in the company and in social circles, the most respected guests are the most senior. You should always greet the oldest person at the event first; but remember that at smaller events you should wait until the host introduces you to everyone personally, writes Life.ro.

Romanian AI startup Druid, $30 million in funding

Romanian AI startup Druid is announcing Tuesday in a statement sent to StartupCafe.ro that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round.

The startup, founded in 2018 in Romania by entrepreneur Liviu Dragan, wants to use the funding to accelerate international expansion, especially in the US market, which already accounts for 60% of Druid’s current revenues, according to a release, according to Startup Startup Cafe. .ro

Romania, for the first time in the OECD education report: performance, half of the average, in all sections

While OECD member countries spent an average of 5.1% of their GDP on education in 2020, Romania allocated only 2.7% to this area, according to the “Education with a View to 2023” Report, in which our country is included for the first time since the country is in the process of accession.

Despite the importance of having at least a high school diploma in today’s society, the percentage of young Romanians who have not completed higher secondary education is 22%, compared to the OECD average of 14%, the report shows. Graduates of higher education among 25-64-year-olds are twice as low as the OECD average, writes Governance Course

Christian Mungiu: “Our life seems to have gone to waste. Technologies have accelerated the life not only of young people, but also ours”

Christian Mungiu wrote a book about his grandmother. This news could not fail to arouse interest, because any artistic endeavor of one of the most outstanding Romanian directors, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007 with the film 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, starts from the very beginning. under the premise of a valuable cultural act.

The book is based on the stories of grandmother Tania Jonasku, whom her grandson called Buka, written by him in the 90s in a student notebook, from the grandmother’s childhood to the trauma of uprooting caused by the war, when she had to leave Bessarabia occupied by the Russians and be forever separated from part of the family, writes Cultura la duba