Romania is on the verge of a European sanction as protected areas became targets for real estate investors. Gas stations will increase their prices again in several days and PM Boc continues his fight against their price increases. According to a survey 51% of Romanians want to keep Boc as PM.
Evenimentul Zilei reads that Romania is on the verge of a European sanction as protected areas are targeted by real estates investors. Romania is in trial with EC officials for breaching a directive on birds in protected areas and Romanian Parliamentarians prepare a modification of the law, that would allow investors to build in the protected areas.
Parliamentary sources claim that the initiative came from the Democratic Liberal camp at the pressure of some investors. The amendments in the project include among others the possibility to undertake constructions or investments with the approval of the managers of protected areas for each objective according to the local urban plans.
In 2009 the European Commission took measures against Poland and Bulgaria for similar normative acts. Even though many parliamentarians claim that they will vote against the modification, ecologists fear that this will not happen and a dangerous precedent will be created.
Romania is the country with the richest biodiversity in the European Union, experts claim.
Elsewhere in the news, Gandul reads that gas stations will increase prices again in a few days, despite the Prime Minister's plans to cut prices. The newspaper reads that the Prime Minister requested a new analysis on the gasoline market dissatisfied for receiving only general information, official sources declared for news agency Mediafax.
The newspaper reads that gasoline prices will increase in a few days just a few days after the price increased again to 5.45 lei/
