Eastern Europe remembers on Wednesday of the Prague Spring. On this day, in 1969, the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia. The tanks came against the "Socialism with a human face", thus giving the opportunity to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to win a favorable position among Western Countries by speaking against the Russian acts and by preventing Russian troops to cross on Romanian soil.
Back to Romania, things are the same as everyday, with institutionalized bribes in the hospitals, ghost highways emptying State accounts and a free-falling stock market.
91.6% of all stock market investors lost money this year, out of which 13.4% of them saw their portfolios dropping to less than 50% of their value on year ago. 22.5% of the investors saw losses between 40 and 50%, Cotidianul reads, quoting a Prognosis.ro study.
Meanwhile, the Romanian Central Bank (BNR) wants to get rid of the promotional interest rates for credits and to force banks to maintain the same interest level and the same amount paid in rates from the beginning of a credit until its final payment, same Cotidianul informs.
The figures for the recent electoral campaign are published today, showing that independent candidate Sorin Oprescu, who won the Bucharest Mayor office, had absolutely no protocol expenses, despite the fact that he organized his press conferences in a pub.
The main political formations came out of the electoral campaign burdened with debt: Social Democrats still have to pay some 8.86 million RON (2.4 million euros), after spending 19.1 million RON, while Liberal-Democrats still have to pay 3.7 million RON (around 1 million euros), after spending 18.3 million RON, Evenimentul Zilei reads.
After many years of scandals and tons of cash paid in advance or as compensations, Bechtel finally seems to get to work. A 25-kilometers segme
