Once again, the government rushes into optimistic estimates regarding Romania's economic evolution in 2010 while the European Commission is more careful, one newspaper reads on Thursday. The government is about to introduce co-payment in health: find out how much we are to pay. Romania's military will shift gears from MIGs to F-16 planes - in theory, free of charge but in practice costs amount to about 1.3 billion dollars. In Parliament yesterday, the Democrat Liberals (PDL) attempted to introduce on the daily agenda the annual report of the public television, to dismiss the institution's general director, Alexandru Sassu. In Bucharest, citizens have new hopes for a subway stop in Drumul Taberei.
The 24 F-16 second hand planes received for free from the States will cost, in fact, 1.3 billion euro, Romania libera reads. The planes are just the first step of a larger agreement with the US Government as Romania will acquire another 24 new F-16 planes.
After for decades Romanian military flew with Soviet planes like MiGs, Romanian pilots will use American ones. The price covers all adaptation costs incurred by the Romanian party. The most important component will be training pilots and technical personnel in American military bases at US Air Force standards which will cost half of the total sum, sources declared.
This is not the first technical acquisitions offered free by the Americans: in 2006-2007, Romania received 22 Humvees for Afghanistan and Iraq operations. Even though they were free, Romanians had to pay about 6 million dollars in adaptation procedures.
Evenimentul Zilei reads that the government did not learn anything from its past experience and continues to rush into optimistic estimates for Romania's economic evolution in 2010. On the other hand, the European Commission, is, once again, reserved in its evolutio
