All newspapers on Tuesday read about the battle to revive the National Integrity Agency. Elsewhere in the news, the IMF wants to see concrete economic reforms one year after the agreement was signed. On a lighter tone, After five years of modernization works and investments worth over 500 million euro, those wishing to mark May 1st at the seaside, should know that trains to the seaside will still take 4 hours.
Romania libera reads about the battle to revive the National Integrity Agency. The government adopted yesterday a draft law meant to allow the Agency to check the wealth of politicians and publish their wealth declarations.
The project is the executive's answer to the decision of the Constitutional Court who cut the essential attributions of the agency.
However, the Parliament has other solutions than those proposed by the government.
According to the Constitutional Court decision, integrity inspectors break the fundamental law when they find out that there are differences between the wealth gained by politicians and their revenues and urge the court to confiscate the difference.
However, the government's plan is for the Agency to check the wealth of politicians and fill up analysis reports for the prosecutors who take the process further to the court. Parliamentarians consider other solutions for the Agency to work without touching the fundamental law.
Former Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu declared that the Agency might evaluate contraventions and could operate fines. Other measures it would dispose of, according to Chiuariu is to confiscate part of the wealth or other interdictions.
The government proposed two types of wealth declarations: one public and another confidential. According to the plan, the public ones do not contain the exact addresses of the politicians' houses