All newspapers on Thursday read about the recommendation of a presidential committee to legalize drugs which sprang out various commentaries on the side. Elsewhere in the news, a survey reveals whether Romanians are discriminatory against gay and Rroma people. Last but not least, the Parliamentary committee investigating Tourism minister Elena Udrea decided to recommend a penal investigation against the minister.
Most of today's media attention is focused on a Presidential committee that throws in the public sphere controversial issues like legalize light drugs or commercial sex. Evenimentul Zilei reads that the arguments put forward are not even new: such an attitude would assure more control over these activities, specialists claim.
However, the report touches on other solutions like encouraging youngsters to enter the labour market or shift priority on revenues, to revitalize education and eliminate luxury pensions. President Traian Basescu, in light of the Presidential elections this fall declared that he assumes all proposals of the report and said that the report reflects Romania's social system.
The newspaper reminds its readers that in the European Parliamentary elections, the President's daugther, Elena Basescu stirred a lot of debate when she declared that she would legalize light drugs. However, she nuanced her opinions fast, after political attacks.
Cotidianul reads on the subject that the proposal to legalize drugs drops over a friendly judicial practice: even though the law at the moment can send people to jail or impose a penal fine to those who consume light drugs, prosecutors, in their practice came to forgive beginners and propose judges not to investigate them if they reveal their sources.
Elsewhere in the news, Gandul reads about the latest INSOMAR survey revealing the lack of intolerance
