Romanian newspapers on Friday write about the recent visit of top government officials to Italy, a visit which focused on plenty of issues and produced a few surprises. One newspaper tries to find who benefits from a bill passed by the Parliament this week which makes it impossible for a property confiscated by the communist regime to be given back to its rightful owner. And another newspaper writes that the Romanian national football team coach faces justice troubles just as he prepares for a key match against France.
Gandul covers the visit Romanian government officials led by PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu paid to Italy for a first inter-governmental session due to discuss the image of Romania in that country, where a large community of Romanians is living. But Tariceanu was accompanied by no less than nine ministers because the talks touched lots of other issues, from agriculture to migration to police cooperation, the paper writes.
It reports that Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tried to underline the merits of honest Romanians living in Italy and that one should not put too much emphasis on individual crimes committed by some Romanians. Still, he was just as direct when talking about moves to repatriate criminals, who can be send to their home country without their acceptance.
The paper notes that Berlusconi also wished success to Tariceanu's Liberals in the general elections due to take place in Romania this fall and lauded Tariceanu's uneasy government over the past years.
Cotidianul focuses on a bill recently passed by Romanian MPs which makes it impossible for properties nationalized under the communist regime to be given back to their rightful owners. According to the paper, the key to the bill, known as the "Voiculescu law", was to preserve the properties obtained in illegal or marginally legal ways by the political cl
