Romanians will have lower salaries than they had in 2008, one newspaper reads on Monday. Elsewhere in the news, Democrat Liberals were advised by party leaders to keep a low profile and ignore any attacks coming from their coalition partner, the Social Democrats. Last but not least, Romanian and international businessman attended one of the most mediated events of the year: the hunting party of Ion Tiriac, one of the richest men in Romania.
Coditianul reads about the government's decision to diminish the prognosis on the average net salary for 2009 which falls under the 2008 numbers. Romanians will earn less and less this year, namely 1,820 Romanian Ron as compared to 1,844 Romanian Ron in November 2008.
The level of the average net salary was made public in a governmental meeting last week. Sources in the Finance ministry declared that actually there is a nominal increase of 5.2% between the average of income gains last year and the 2009 one but they failed to deny that the average salary in 2009 is lower than the one registered in November 2008.
State salaries will increase this year only if the total estimated budget spending will not exceed 34.1% of the GDP, Finance minister Gheorghe Pogea declared on Friday. Even if salaries will increase in 2009, they will not increase more than 10% for low state salaries. Higher salaries will increase at a lower pace if so.
Democrat Liberals met in Poiana Brasov, Central Romania to discuss about the future strategies to take, Gandul reads. As expected, President Basescu attended the event and congratulated his party for winning the Parliamentary elections.
The newspaper reads that the main advise Democrat Liberals received from their leaders was to ignore all attacks coming from their coalition partner, the Social Democrats. After only one month, the Democrat Liberals
