Thursday, June 12th

Final meeting of Romania's government officials and international creditors

A delegation of international creditors is expected to join Romanian government officials at their final meeting on Thursday. "We need to ensure that our main task, which is a tax easing on employment, will be achieved in a reasonable time, and I hope Opposition officials are not about to change their mind on the issue and support our effort given the encouraging growth, the country's low deficit and the Budget cuts we made earlier this year", Prime Minister Victor Ponta told RADIO ROMANIA. A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Andrea Schaechter is visiting the capital Bucharest between June 2 amd June 16, 2014 to carry out its third evaluation of a stand-by agreement. IMF's visit is made alongside teams of the European Commission and the World Bank.

Inflation figures as provided by INS

Average inflation rate in the first five months of the year hit 0,3 percent, 1 pp lower than the 0.4 percent in same interval of 2013, Romania's National Statistics Institute said in a report on Thursday as quoted by RADIO ROMANIA. However, consumer prices werre on the rise by almost 1 percent as compared to similar period in 2013. Fruit and potatoe sales reported major price highs with egg and sugar prices going down.

"Romania has no international obligation of allowing territorial autonomy on ethnic criteria"

"Romania has no international obligation of allowing territorial autonomy on ethnic criteria" - this was the Romanian government's answer to a request put forward by the Székely National Council. The answer comes after the Székely National Council (CNS) presented the prefecture in the Romanian central county of Mureş with a manifesto concerning the autonomy of the so-called Székely Land on March 10 after ceremonies commemorating the death of Székely heroes in county capital Târgu Mureş. CNS president Izsak Balazs said he called on the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) to express its position on the issue. "We believe that many things in the government's answer fail to abide by its international law commitments. However, we should carefully consider the government's response. This is why we looked for advicee from UDMR leader Kelemen Hunor as we expected to take his answers into account when wording our position", Mr. Izsak said as quoted by RADIO ROMANIA on Thursday.

Alexandru Danga

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