The government approved the privatization of CFR Marfă, but forgot to publish in the Official Gazette, Traian Băsescu, noted yesterday, after the BURSA newspaper reported this as early as one week ago, in the article called "The contract approved by the Government for the privatization of CFR Marfă - kept secret", published on July 30, in which we wrote: "Tomorrow (ed. note: July 31st) a week will have passed since the Government approved the Decision for the privatization of CFR Marfă, but in the Official Gazette nothing was published in that regard, that is even as other Government Decisions get published on the very day they are made, or, in exceptional situations, even during the week-ends".

Even today, the Government, has yet to publish this law in the Official Gazette, even though the latter has came under the direct control of the government since last year.

The president stressed that the failure to publish the Decision concerning the privatization of CFR Marfă in the Official Gazette is delaying the signing of the contract.

"The fact that it doesn't get published (ed. note: the law) in the Official Gazette is preventing the signing of the contract, with everything that entails: the Government can't enforce the collateral that has already been submitted, of 10 million (ed. note: Euros) - essentially, the whole process has been left hanging -, not only that, but the commitments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the European Union (EU) are also being broken".

Traian Băsescu said that had the privatization of CFR Marfă been his responsibility, he would have long ago made decisions on this process, and said that "CFR Marfă is not doing the rounds between the two palaces, it is parked in the Victoria palace and it seems like the locomotive has run out of steam".

The president continued: "If I was the