In an interview for a daily newspaper, PM Boc talks about all current political and economic themes. Other newspapers read about what Romania signed up for the next two years with the IMF agreement. Prices of food prices will increase by 10-12% in the upcoming months. Over 50 persons wanted in Schengen states were discovered this week in Romania. Tourism might be blocked in the Danube Delta.
In an interview for Evenimentul Zilei, Prime Minister Emil Boc claims that the implementation of the new Labour code pulled out of slavery 78,000 Romanians who were working on the black market and for which employees decided to create labour contracts fearing sanctions in just four days.
Boc said that the most important conclusion of IMF talks is that Romania has every chance to pull out of recession as a first step from pulling out of the crisis. He said that the toughest period has passed and that a continuation of reform is necessary to rush economic growth. Boc said that the state cannot offer salary, pensions and other social benefits without a real economic ground. If things go on the track we sketched, Boc said, budgetary personnel will recover salary decreases in the end of 2011.
Romania libera reads about the agreement between Romanian authorities and IMF representatives on the new precautionary agreement for the next two years. The content of the agreement will be released later today. However, top priorities are state owned companies that register great losses.
The list of the IMF contains 20 such companies that register debts and according to sources quoted by Mediafax, IMF specifically requested radical measures for the companies. However, the state does not want to sell its majority pack in any of the companies and therefore will sell just a minority of shares.
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