How the Adidas concern sued in Romania a company from Chisinau that sells sports shoes from Turkey ● Charging stations: perception of charging services by Romanian drivers ● State delays payment for photovoltaic panels for 2 years ● CSM prosecutors say that MP George Simion is trying to intimidate them and that they violate their independence ● Pescobar opens restaurant Taverna Racilor in Cluj ● Scandal with criminal complaints between the postmaster and a local resident he put handcuffs on ● The day when the whole village went to school ● Romania has the most expensive budget ● The management of Radio Iași took over smaller audience

How the German concern Adidas found itself in a lawsuit in Romania with a company from Chisinau, which sells sports shoes from Turkey in the Republic of Moldova

In the summer of 2021, the plaintiff ADIDAS AG filed a lawsuit in the Bucharest Court against the defendant, SC MIRARA-PRO SRL, a company registered in the Republic of Moldova, with a request to compel the defendant to stop importing and selling sports shoes that have 4 parallel stripes on the outside, but with brand names, registered in Turkey. The legal proceedings were initiated after Romanian customs officials seized more than 1,000 pairs of sports shoes bearing Adidas branding from a vehicle that was only transiting Romania. What decisions Romanian judges have made so far in this dispute, see the JustNews article.

Charging stations: Romanian drivers’ perception of charging services

The Roland Berger consulting company conducted a study of charging stations in Romania and drivers’ perception of the quality of electric vehicle charging services.

German consulting company Roland Berger has published a new edition of its annual study “Electric Vehicle Charging Index”, which provides a detailed picture of the charging infrastructure and the perception of electric vehicles by users in 30 countries in five regions.

Regarding the Romanian market, the new edition of the study highlights a number of positive aspects where our country is better than the world average, but at the same time there are also a number of aspects that need to be improved in order to keep up. with increasing sales of electric cars and hybrids, writes Auto-Critica

The state delays the payment for photo panels for up to 2 years

The Romanian government is raising the VAT on photovoltaic panels from the current 5% to 9% in a new package of fiscal measures caused by a budget hole. However, consumers and solar installers complain to PressOne that this increase is actually the least of their problems. In fact, the attempts to transition to green energy, which Romania took on in Brussels, are running into a wall precisely when it comes to cooperation with state institutions, suppliers and distributors of electricity.

At the request of PressOne, PressOne analyzes the main dysfunctions in the production, consumption and distribution of energy from renewable sources, which were revealed as a result of discussions with consumers and data provided by official sources.

CSM prosecutors say MP George Simion is trying to intimidate them and is violating their independence

CSM prosecutors say MP George Simion is trying to intimidate them and is undermining their independence after AUR co-president George Simion, accompanied by around 100 supporters, came to the National Broadcasting Council (CNA) to protest fines imposed on TV stations that support him.

Since he was not allowed in, Simion and his entourage took turns taking over the offices of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of the Environment and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) under the pretext of wanting to “wake up” government officials. CSM reacted, PressHub writes

Pescobar opens the Taverna Racilor restaurant in Cluj after fines “poured” on the restaurant in the capital: “I feel like the final of the World Cup”

Paul Nicolaou stated: “Dear friends, the wait is over. I feel like I’m in the final of the World Cup when I also cover, I also head, I scored and I came to Cluj. This is where we will open up. The former location of Casa Dacilor became Taverna Racilor Cluj. Finally, a miracle happens. After my several attempts to enter the all too wonderful city of Cluj, it did not disappear. Only here I found it in Casa Dacilor,” writes Știri de Cluj.

A scandal involving criminal allegations between a postmaster and a local resident he handcuffed

On September 6, a driver from Terkaia, who was stopped in a traffic jam for a routine check, was prosecuted for refusing to undergo a drug test. At first glance, a trivial case, which, however, turned into a grandiose scandal, was investigated by the prosecutor’s office, and the stubborn driver and the policeman who stopped him became the suspects.

Both sued each other for a number of crimes: Jonas Čaba from Tarka complained that the policeman, agent Kostel Istok, the head of the commune’s police station, behaved cruelly and handcuffed him without a good reason, because of which he refused all that was required of him. It is suspected that he did this to punish him, as he had denounced him last year for refusing to stop a car carrying wood that was being transported without a permit by a relative of the mayor. The policeman denies this and also made a statement: he claims that the driver has been following him, driving around his family’s house and gossiping about him for no reason in the commune, connecting him, simply out of malice, with all kinds of people and crimes, – he writes

That day the whole village went to school

Thousands of residents of Tufan and Ikoana, grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren have never opened a single book, never been to a holiday, never bowed their heads before the coronation. Until September 11, 2023.

Remus, the boy who is the leader of the group we talk to in Tufan with Ikoana, has his sunglasses upside down, hanging from his ears and with the lenses around his neck. Children respectfully gather around him. Tufanu village in Argesh never had a secondary school. After the fourth grade, children walk 7 kilometers back and forth “over the mountain, through the forest” to Maluren.

They tell how the classroom is divided by a plasterboard wall: those from Mălureni, Romanians, and those from Tufanu from Icoana, Roma. But the teacher had an idea.

“One day, before graduation, our headmaster from Meluren took our colleagues over the hill on a trip to see what it was like, because they were making us look too ugly. Then they apologized to us. They said they wouldn’t come like us,” says Remus. And by that time, those from Tufan had allies: activists, their own powers, and some voices from the Malurens. But after the teacher’s experiment, somehow from the testimonies of the young Romanian visitors who came over the hill to Tufan, a stream of thoughts was born. At first, he acted discreetly in favor of this Roma village, which is known to suffer from troubles, writes School9.

Romania has the most expensive budget

Fiscal changes prepared by the government will be borne by the private sector, and public sector employees will not feel the effect of the reduction in spending. According to Adrian Codirlaşu, vice president of CFA Romania, this creates a disparity between the private and public environment. The irony is that the government has decided to take care of civil servants in conditions where Romanian civil servants are the most expensive in the European Union, writes Wall-Street.ro

The management of Radio Iași predicted an increasingly smaller audience

Libertatea obtained several internal documents of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, which show that two managers of the territorial studio in Iași – Radio Iași – assumed to the management audience figures 30% lower than last year, and almost 60% % lower than the assumptions in 2021.

According to the SRR Presidential Decree of May 2023, which approves the “specific annual goals” of each studio in the territory, the head of Radio Iași, Claudia Krakelianu, and the editor-in-chief, Nicolae Tomescu Staci, committed that the local station will have an average annual audience of at least 200,000 unique listeners per day , writes Libertatea.

Three doctors from Marius Nasta, accused of bribery, cannot justify four million lei

Two doctors from Marius Nasta, accused of bribery, were preliminarily arrested on Thursday evening. Four remain under judicial review. Three defendants, who cannot justify their assets, have been arrested. All the victims apologized to the head of the hospital.

“There was an article in the press that made accusations against some doctors from the Marius Nasta Institute who engaged in behavior that is criminal, and I forwarded this article in the press to the competent authorities for investigation according to the methods they know. As a manager, you don’t have the ability to investigate if you don’t have statements from employees,” Beatrice Mahler, manager of the Marius Nast Institute in Bucharest, said on Thursday.

And he added that the complaint came to the authorities in December 2021, writes Europa Liberă.

Pessimistic OECD forecasts for Romania’s partners. Review of Romanian indicators by analysts

Although the grape harvest in 2023 has not yet ended, it can already be said that 2024 does not bode well, as predicted in the spring. Not for the global economy, not for the European Union, not to mention Eastern Europe and Romania.

The latest international institution to revise its forecast down is the OECD, the organization that unites the world’s largest economies.

Although the OECD does not include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the interim autumn forecast, expectations for the development of the external economic environment in 2024 are an important piece of the puzzle for developing forecasts at the regional level. In addition, Romania’s development will also be affected by a package of fiscal measures to reduce the budget deficit, which will further slow economic growth in 2024, writes Curs de Governare

The freedom cry of 1989 tells us little today

The cry of freedom in 1989, that “Freedom, freedom” that people said in the central squares of the cities, fleeing the dictatorship with all the joy of their souls, today, after 33 years, when the right to freedom seems natural to us.

However, this right can be lost instantly, notes Tudor Giurgiu, the director of the film “Freedom”, the gala premiere of which will be held on October 2, and in cinemas – from October 3.

The film tells about a controversial moment during the Revolution of 1989, when in Sibiu the army, police, security and civilians, who took up weapons, shot each other, convinced that they were shooting at terrorists, writes PressHub

The stake and role of Romania in the wheat war

Zelensky criticized the countries of Eastern Europe for the embargo on Ukrainian wheat.

Relations between Poland and Ukraine have recently deteriorated due to the decision of the government in Warsaw to maintain the ban on grain from the neighboring country.

Romanian farmers claim losses of 3 billion euros from the entry of cheap Ukrainian wheat into the market.

The production of grain in Ukraine costs 35 billion dollars, on which the work of the economy affected by the Russian invasion depends, writes SpotMedia