The residents of a commune want to evict a citizen who became a lottery millionaire: “We work, we don’t gamble” ●CNAIR patched up a bridge in Vrancea with sticks, which is about to fall ●The supporters point to Meszar: no one asked him to move UTA to Hungary ●A mayor from Bihor “monitored” his deputy mayor and claims that he spends less than 4 hours a day in the City Hall, of which 24 minutes for cigarettes ●A multinational with business in Iaşi would have misrepresented its expenses in accounting, in order to reduce its profit. High Court Trial ●Life in renovated blocks of flats that are at risk of collapsing in an earthquake ●A Romanian parliamentarian claims that there should be more gambling halls because “it would help the economy”
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The residents of a commune want to drive out a citizen who became a lottery millionaire: “We work, we don’t gamble”
There is a lot of commotion 30 or so kilometers from the county seat, with people already taking to the streets and paved roads to protest. “Out with the millionaire from Pechea!”, “We don’t need rich people gambling” or “We work, we don’t gamble” are just some of the slogans displayed by ordinary people. One of them, nea Petrică, told us directly: “Pechea became known only through boxers and a few privatized people who barely remember the commune, but not through lottery millionaires who will surely pretend that we are not I know. We are with Lucian Bute and the other boxers. That’s it!” It is an unprecedented move in this area of Romania.
To be pure envy in the middle? Tanti Lenuța, who lives further down the hill from the hospital in Pechea, says that not necessarily: “What example does this millionaire give to our young people? That you become a rich man from the lottery or the lottery, arranged in your own home? It is not normal, we make ourselves the future only by the sweat of the brow, writes Viața Libera.
CNAIR patched up a bridge in Vrancea with sticks, which is about to fall
The Jitia bridge, on the National Road 2N in Vrancea, is in danger of collapsing, images of the broken ramp of the bridge and the advanced state of deterioration of the bridge from the CNAIR administration being published in the local press.
DN2 N separates from DN 2 (E 85) Bucharest-Buzău-Focșani and is managed by the Buzău Regional Directorate of Roads and Bridges (DRDP Buzău), Regional established in 2022 which took over the roads from DRDP Bucharest, Constanța and Iași.
Several secondary National Roads in Vrancea county were transferred from the Vrancea County Council to CNAIR (then AND and CNADNR), but the Ministry of Transport, through CNAIR, did not make the necessary investments for the maintenance, consolidation and modernization of these roads, writes PressHub.
The supporters point to Meszar: no one asked him to move UTA to Hungary
The UTA Supporter Club Association (SCU) vehemently rejects the misplaced claims of Mr. Alexandru Meszar, according to which the fans are asking him to disaffiliate the team from the Romanian Football Federation and move it to the Hungarian championship.
“Thus, we find that we are facing a new slippage of the one who leads UTA, without having any official position within the club. Yes, we agree with the idea that UTA was clearly at a disadvantage in certain games, even quite seriously in the game in Cluj, but at the same time we have to see beyond the “smoke screen” launched by Alexandru Meszar.
We cannot and must not overlook the fact that UTA is at this impasse, stagnating for months in a directly degradable position, precisely because of the bad decisions made by the management, i.e. Alexandru Meszar. It is wrong to blame the club’s situation exclusively on the referees, when we all see that the main causes are related to incompetence”, writes Arad24.net.
A mayor from Bihor “monitored” his deputy mayor and claims that he spends less than 4 hours a day in the City Hall, of which 24 minutes for cigarettes
The independent mayor of the municipality of Marghita, Marcel Sas Adăscăliții, revealed that he monitored the deputy mayor Demian Zsolt from the UDMR, with whom he has frequent disputes, both in 2021 and in 2022.
The vice-mayor was followed – says Sas Adăscălitii – with the help of surveillance cameras from the access points in the City Hall, and the result is that Demian would have spent less than 4 hours a day in the institution. The mayor even counted his deputy’s cigarette breaks, claiming they cost him an average of 24 minutes/day.
The mayor of Marghita conveyed, first of all, to the deputy mayor that he owes 27,000 lei to the municipality. In the past, Sas Adăscăliții explained that Demian Zsolt was the only one from the Marghita City Hall whose salary was not reduced by 10% in 2021, when such a provision was voted for the employees of the city hall, and this in the context in which the allowances of the mayors can be reduced only on requestwrites Bihoreanul.
A multinational with business in Iaşi would have misrepresented its expenses in accounting, in order to reduce its profit. High Court Trial
The Supreme Court of Justice of the country will have to decide whether the Iesian Fiscal is trying to skin a corporation or it is trying by all means to cheat the state. The stake is a relatively small amount, under one million lei, but the case is illustrative of the position adopted by the state on one side, and by powerful companies on the other.
Tax inspectors claim that some categories of expenses, difficult to track, are artificially inflated, so that the company, otherwise profitable, appears in the records as barely surviving. In turn, the company’s representatives present their expenses as absolutely normal, the company having nothing to hide. The battle between Fisc and Veolia reached a first conclusion before the Court of Appeal, but the war is not over yet, writes Ziarul de Iasi.
Life in renovated blocks of flats that are at risk of collapsing in an earthquake
The last national technical expertise and verification of the resistance structure of apartment buildings was carried out in 1994-1995. After Romania’s accession to the European Union, the authorities began to invest massively in restoring the facades of old buildings, in order to make them more energy efficient, according to community standards. However, they forgot to check whether the structure of the blocks had not degraded and whether they would withstand a strong earthquake.
Florina Josan (72 years old) has been living for almost 50 years in a ten-storey block of flats on Drumul Taberei. The paradox lives on that the state renovated the facade of the building, by thermally insulating the external walls, but the building is full of cracks, including in the staircase of the building.
“It’s an old block. There have been cracks on the exterior walls for about ten years. They were covered when the facade was made. I don’t know if the block is at risk of damage in a stronger earthquake. I hope that is not the case. I’d rather not think about it,” Florina tells us.
Florina Josan’s husband is the administrator of the block. “I know from him that it is a problem related to the safety of the blocks in the area, on Drumul Taberei. But I don’t know how big it is. Nobody knows. The authorities pretend not to see, and the tenants in the block prefer not to know. If they knew, this means money spent, which many do not have, or even moving to other homes. Where to move?”, asks the woman, quoted by Free Europe.
A Romanian parliamentarian claims that there should be more gambling halls because “it would help the economy”
A parliamentarian suggests that there are not enough gambling halls in Romania, compared to the profits the state could have if people had a place to play. A well-known tax consultant sitting a short distance from the parliamentarian then says, in a room populated by representatives of the gambling industry, politicians and civil servants, that they talk too harshly about the addiction to gambling and sports betting in Romania, because as well it’s good to talk about “phone addiction” as well.
“Raise your hand who is addicted to the phone,” says the tax consultant. The hall laughs.
It is a meeting initiated by the Romanian gambling industry itself, with the aim of bringing to the same table, among others, political decision-makers (presented as “policy makers”), companies and regulatory authorities, writes PressOne.
