The state became the chief mediator between banks and police officers who contracted credits in an attempt to resolve their crisis, most newspapers read today. In politics, a new party sprang out: the party formed by Senators and Deputies who left the Social Democrats was recognized as a political organization in the Parliament by the governing coalition. Romania and Bulgaria do not benefit from Skype offers.
A first in Romania: police chiefs received an order from the Interior minister to have talks with commercial bank directors and demand recalculations of credits contracted by police officers, Romania libera reads. The order comes from the Interior ministry and the idea from the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police. Police officers will meet with commercial bank directors to identify possible solutions to ease the financial burden from police officers.
The initiative follows consistent tensions within the police and the protest organized two weeks ago which lead to the resignation of Interior minister Vasile Blaga. At the protest police officers marched illegally towards the presidential headquarters.
The initiative, according to officials aims at helping police officers whose salaries were decreased by 25%. Authorities underlined that they have no way to push banks into taking such solutions, but they aim to talk to bank directors about the situation.
Bank representatives, on the other hand claim that each police officer should visit the bank for a renegotiation of the credit contract but a global solution is not possible.
Gandul quotes union leaders who expect the institutions to negotiate better deals for them, with the banks. They admit that one of the toughest effects of their salary decrease was on their credits.
Union leader Marin Gruia said that the idea came from them an
