One newspaper reads on Friday how Romanians in Greece are handling the crisis. Elsewhere in the news, the government plans to pass a normative act to compell owners of houses to rehabilitate the facades. Last but not least, when they talk about Romania, foreigners want to know about Transylvania.
Romania libera reads about the 20,000 Romanians spending their holiday in Greece and the way they cope with the protests in Greece. Unsatisfied by the governmet's decision to decrease transports licences, greek truckers, who paid high amounts for previous licences almost blocked the entire country as they refused to transport any goods, including petrol.
There are plenty of Romanians who travelled by car to Greece and who find themselves at odds: petrol stations opened yesterday night but each car could get petrol of 30 euro only as transporters are still on strike.
Tour operators declared for the newspaper that many Romanians chose Northern Greece to spend their holiday and they can fill up tanks in Bulgaria without a problem. Even so, the number of Romanian tourists in Greece dropped compared to last year because of the economic crisis and not because the Greek protests.
The Greek government is taking serious action to end the strike of the truck drivers and declared that if they refuse to do their job, they risk to lose their trucks and their licence or can even get arrested.
Elsewhere in the news, Gandul reads that the government prepares an ordinance ruling that all house owners are compelled to rehabilitate their facades otherwise can face prison or fines. According to the ordinance, house owners will be compelled to rehabilitate the facades of the houses at their initative or at the request of the city hall.
If the owner does not have an initiative, the city hal
