The last remaining bank in Oțelu Roșu ● Brotherhood of petty barons ● Village police do not have breathalyzers. They must smell the drivers ● Highway to nowhere ● Billion tanks and missiles. List of arms purchases in Romania ● The village that wanted a school ● What will happen to the hundreds of hectares of forest confiscated in the “Cerestiaua file 1” ● What will be the impact of state taxes? ● A poisoned gift from the new measures of the fiscal budget.

​h2: Cholak and Grindyan reopen the last remaining bank in Ocela-Rosh

The only banking agency in Otzel-Ros, CEK Bank, closed its doors two weeks ago due to lack of staff, after one employee retired and another went on maternity leave.

Concerned that pensioners would no longer be able to receive their pensions and would have to travel all the way to Caransebes, and that the entire city could not remain without banking services, Mayor Luca Meleescu tried to solve the problem by appealing to those from the management of CEC Bank, to find a solution.

Invited to the Express Live show, the mayor Ocelu Rosu said that for two weeks he tried to restore the local agency, but without success, so he also asked the support of the prefect of Karash-Severin, Ioan Dragomir, writes Express de Banat

Brotherhood of small barons. Communes contributed more than 1,000,000 lei to the mayor’s son’s business

In a few months, the mayor’s son’s company struck a blow among the institutions managed by his father’s colleagues in the Yass district. The son of the mayor of Stolniceni-Prăjescu collected more than 1.3 million lei from several neighboring town halls for various cadastral services. Beta RG Trust SRL is managed by Rares Hugianu, the son of the mayor of Stolnici-Preiescu, Costel Hugianu, who joined PSD and PNL. The company’s contracts had no political color. This year alone, Hougianu’s company received 38 contracts with the state. 70% of Hugianu’s company’s turnover is public money contracts, writes 7Iasi.ro

The rural police do not have breathalyzers. They must smell the drivers

The employees of the 5th branch of the village police, who were sent after the driver who was driving in serpentines, checked him for the smell.

The rural police do not have breathalyzers. They must smell the drivers

At the end of May 2021, a bar employee in Reducanen saw Grigore Constantinescu leaving another bar. His wobbly gait made the bartender think he was intoxicated, writes Newsweek

Highway to nowhere. How Romania opens 1,000 kilometers with a stretch that starts and ends suddenly

The authorities are preparing to brag about the opening of the first 1,000 kilometers of expressway. They’re not saying they’re going to cut the ribbon for the 13.5-kilometer stretch that doesn’t connect to any other expressway. This is part of the Transylvania Autobahn, which began 20 years ago.

The 13.5-kilometer section of the highway runs between Suplaçu de Barkeu (Bihor) and Nushfalau (Selaj) and is being built by the Turkish company Nurol.

The works, worth almost €80 million excluding VAT, started in 2021 and had a deadline of February 2023, which was extended due to weather conditions, transport officials apologized, writes Europa Liberă.

Tanks and missiles worth a billion dollars. What does Romania’s arms procurement list contain?

While all eyes are on Poland’s impressive list of military purchases, equally exciting developments are taking place on NATO’s southeastern flank. Over the past half-decade, Romania has dramatically increased its military spending and investment in infrastructure, which could make Bucharest and Warsaw the south and north poles of NATO’s eastern flank defense strategy.

Slowly, without much noise, Romania is reforming its army and has already equipped itself with military capabilities that allow it to feel more secure in the face of aggression from the east, writes PressOne

A village that wanted a school

For the first time, children from a Roma village with 1,000 inhabitants went to high school without having to walk 7 kilometers there and back, over a hill, through a forest, across a river.

Small lights flicker on a dark, impenetrable hill. You can hear feet stumbling in the weeds, and cheerful shouts: “Ma’am, can you still catch me?” “Yes, stay!” – firmly answers the little boy. I come with arms full of little creatures that twinkle with light, banal by day but fantastic at night, from bedtime stories, untold stories in the village of Tufanu-ku-Ikoana.

We are in Argesh, only 12 kilometers from Pitesti, but actually at the end of the world, writes Scoala9

What will happen to the hundreds of hectares of forest in Arges confiscated in the “Cheresteaua 1 file”

At the beginning of this year, the Pitesti Court of Appeal issued the final verdict in the case, which the press called the “Cherestyaua case 1”, in which 14 individuals and 2 legal entities were sent to court for having committed a real massacre in the period 2008-2012 in the forests of the Fegerash mountains, surrounded by the communes of Arefu, Nukshoara and Leresti in the county of Argesh. In addition to the heavy years in prison for the shooting that the five defendants received, the other two chose to forfeit hundreds of hectares of forest because they were found guilty of money laundering. In recent days, the National Agency for the Administration of Inaccessible Assets – NABI – reported that a significant first part of these forests can be transferred free of charge to the management of central state administration bodies and other state institutions of Ukraine. of national interests or autonomous regions of national interest, writes JustNews.ro

What impact will government taxes have? Economist: “One million people will have lower incomes, while the rest of the population will see rising prices”

Economists consulted by Libertatea say the immediate effect of the measures will be to reduce the disposable income of a million people who will have to pay direct taxes on wages, while the remaining taxes will be reflected in rising prices, especially for food. , detergents or cars, which will further affect the rest of the population. At the same time, an increase in excise taxes will lead to an increase in the price of cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and sweet juices, and an increase in VAT will lead to an increase in the price of housing, reports Libertatea

A poisoned gift in the new fiscal budget measures. The pensions of hundreds of thousands of Romanians will become smaller

The pension accounts of at least 400,000 to 500,000 workers in several sectors of the economy will be affected by the budget measures proposed by the coalition government, if the package of laws, which has been put up for public discussion today, is adopted. According to Economica’s calculations, based on official data, at the level of the pension system, the shortfall will be around €1 billion, the amount that will no longer go to private pension funds (level II).

In particular, it refers to a provision that exempts workers from four important sectors from paying contributions to Pension Level II (a privately managed system where all workers in Romania must contribute), writes Economica.

The reaction of the business environment to the package of fiscal measures submitted for discussion by the government

The Ministry of Finance submitted for public discussion a draft of fiscal and budgetary measures to reduce the budget deficit from 2023 and the following years after several months of discussions in the public space regarding increases or new taxes ♦ The draft provides for a number of measures such as tax increases, new taxes, saving the state budget and measures to combat tax evasion, all contained in a mammoth 82-page package, a draft law that will make its way through parliament, making the government accountable ♦ What’s not in business commentary is that these “tax hikes” is actually a return to normalcy – it’s not about any tax increases. Two million workers in Romania (40% of the total number) do not pay general taxes today – they are either exempt from paying income tax, or pay CASS, or both, but enjoy medical care and all the rights of those who do not which is not exempted, writes ZF