Steaua Bucharest managed to end the game against Fiorentina at 0:0, winning an important point in the football game abroad. Unfortunately, is the only good news of the day. Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu met EC president Jose Manuel Barroso and received some criticism on the recent evolutions of the anti-graft campaign. Meanwhile, the international financial crisis begins to be felt in Romania, where the national currency begun to drop and the cost of credits is expected to grow significantly.
Steaua Bucharest still has a shot at the qualification from the Champions' League groups, after the even score against Fiorentina last night (0:0). Even for the Italian team, the best player was the Romanian striker Mutu, Romanian newspapers comment.
Finance Minister Varujan Vosganian admitted on Tuesday, for the first time since the début of the international financial crisis, that Romania should be in a "state of permanent alert", even though it was not significantly affected by the foreign events on the market. The cash flow on the Romanian market seems to be the main reason for concern, according to Vosganian. More expensive credits and a price decrease on the real estate market will be the first and most important effects of the global crisis, Evenimentul Zilei reads.
On the same subject, Gandul adds that all prices that are referred to in Euros will grow, including rent payments and bank installments.
Same Gandul notes that the European government didn’t wait for a signal from the United States and begun to buy banks that might be otherwise in crisis. The Lowlands (Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg) injected 11.2 billion Euros in Fortis, one of the largest players on the banking market, while another 6 billion Euros are about to be spent for supporting Dexia.
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