Due to lack of money to the budget, the state can even block your salary for an unpaid fine, one newspaper reads on Monday. Elsewhere in the news, Senator Voicu contests the decision of the Senate to approve his arrest and tries to postpone it. In the same vein, the number of magistrates protesting against undeserved promotions in the Superior Council of Magistracy increased in two days from 30 to 300.

Daily, ten Romanians are hospitalized in Vienna as they flee from Romania's poor hospital conditions and doctors. A group of Kurdish companies control the vegetable and fruit market in Romania, one newspaper claims.

Gandul reads in its Monday edition that the state, in its desperate attempt to add some money to the budget is ready to block one's salary for an unpaid fine.

At a national level, the value of traffic fines, not cashed yet, amounts to about 100 million euro, not to talk about the local taxes unpaid in the last years.

Mayors in Romania realized that they have a way to increase their local revenues by cashing in unpaid taxes for properties, terrains or households. Another source of revenue is the traffic fine, prostitution fine and the fines in public transportation.

Among these, the biggest are the unpaid traffic fines: if the person urged to pay does not respect the deadline, the state can go as far as blocking his salary or take up his car or household. The source of revenue is considerable: last year, 4.7 million traffic fines were given worth a little over 200 million euro of which only half was paid.

In politics today, Senator Catalin Voicu, under investigation of anti graft prosecutors, contests the decision of the Parliament to approve his arrest in an attempt to postpone it, Gandul reads. The Senator requested yesterday to be heard in the Parliament this week on grounds that the de