President Basescu's proposal of a unicameral Parliament contradicts the EU regionalization plans, one newspaper reads on Monday. Elsewhere in the news, a newspaper reveals what politicians do not want to, that 400,000 public servants are on the verge of lay off. Last but not least, EC warned the government with the second stage of the infringement procedure for noncompliance in the communications sector.
Cotidianul reads in its Monday edition that Basescu's proposal of a unicameral Parliament contradicts the EU regionalization plans. President Basescu proposed a new referendum to shift to a unicameral Parliament. Starting with 2013, Romania will be constrained by its EU membership to have two chambers.
Basescu's plans thus contradicts the future transformations which are due in Romania in the following years. More precisely, it regards the reorganization of the country, in administrative terms. In such an administrative system, the existence of two Parliamentary chambers is almost mandatory.
In almost all European states where the region is the administrative unit, the Parliament is unicameral Liberal Viorel Coifan declared for the newspaper. He explained that the Senate will deal with general issues like defense policy, national safety etc while the other Chamber will have to deal with economical, social, educational etc issues.
Political analyst Cristian Parvulescu says that the regionalization is not only necessary, but also inevitable. Romania will have to regionalize by 2013 even if there is no clear deadline from EU. However, starting 2013 the EU will offer financial aid to regions which Romania risks to lose.
What politicians plan to hide, Gandul reveals on Monday: budgetary personnel will be laid off to increase the salaries of those in the system. Namely, 400,000 people will be laid off by 2014. @N_
