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[00:00:02] lose money from the PNR.
[00:00:05] Claudiu Lucaci, the producer of the show "Ultima Ediție" has joined me on
[00:00:08] set. Good evening, thank you for being here, Claudiu. The unitary salary law
[00:00:12] is essentially marking time, but our sources
[00:00:16] say there are some mechanisms that will
[00:00:20] bring the authorities' solutions closer to the
[00:00:23] unions' demands. My question is, where do you expect
[00:00:26] the compromises to be made, who and from
[00:00:30] where, so that there are fewer and fewer categories
[00:00:33] of employees, of workers who are
[00:00:37] revolted. We must keep one thing in mind: the discussions
[00:00:41] that we see taking place at Cotroceni Palace
[00:00:44] with the advisor appointed by the new president are with the
[00:00:48] parties, with the party leaders and with the unions
[00:00:51] on the other hand, for now, they have started for now,
[00:00:55] the discussions that are advancing or not, as he
[00:00:57] said. In good spirits in two weeks, in fact, even the Prime Minister said that
[00:01:01] he participated first in approximately two weeks from now, there will be
[00:01:05] in fact, there are two separate things, one is what the politicians want,
[00:01:08] meaning the parliament, because we are talking
[00:01:11] about the parliamentary parties, the other is what the unions
[00:01:15] want, what is interesting is that
[00:01:18] the dialogue is not conducted with everyone or in
[00:01:21] groups, it could be sectoral, it is conducted in general, it is conducted
[00:01:24] in this political way, let's do something because we are losing
[00:01:28] 770 million. If we do not meet the respective milestone, which is
[00:01:32] the approval, the adoption of the law, and a
[00:01:36] different kind of discussion is held with the unions, what can we do to
[00:01:39] satisfy you somewhat, not, not to
[00:01:42] appear in these negotiations,
[00:01:46] well, this
[00:01:48] support. The general idea of is a false form of negotiation, meaning it does not lead
[00:01:51] to a common result, but leads to two types of results, on the one hand
[00:01:55] political, on the other hand that of society, of the unions that
[00:01:58] represent society. But you should know that the budget is the same, the money is
[00:02:02] the same, ultimately it must be this
[00:02:05] is the next,
[00:02:08] this leadership of the state, I mean the government and
[00:02:11] parliament, has a parliamentary majority through the respective parties,
[00:02:14] wants to check off, checked off in the sense of
[00:02:17] adopted, a law that would lead
[00:02:21] to the entry into the country of 770 million euros,
[00:02:24] this is the contradiction, the unions say that we are not
[00:02:28] interested in the end. You will check off and get
[00:02:31] 770 million, because what follows for a long
[00:02:35] period of time will be a greater loss than what enters the
[00:02:38] country now at this moment, this is, these are two
[00:02:42] totally contrary opinions, meaning it is clear that they cannot agree on this aspect
[00:02:46] and then the unions will sabotage in the sense that
[00:02:49] they will refuse to I am referring to the union confederations
[00:02:53] now, but also to those who are not represented by them, they will try to
[00:02:57] block the adoption of this law in the way it was. You understand
[00:03:00] what happens if on paper salaries do not decrease
[00:03:03] nominally, how are the categories that
[00:03:07] lose significant sums by cutting bonuses protected from
[00:03:11] the forecasted inflation? Salaries do not decrease, incomes decrease and
[00:03:14] here is, let's say, the big problem of the unions, which is also the
[00:03:18] people's problem, meaning, no, unions are not a separate entity from
[00:03:21] employees, so the idea is the following: this scheme that was
[00:03:25] made regarding the new salary has a
[00:03:28] single principle with.
[00:03:30] how do we reduce the salary envelope? It's simple, at
[00:03:34] the level of the budgetary or public system,
[00:03:37] from this question you can only get out in one way, by
[00:03:41] reduction, because it's nonsense otherwise, no, and what the government is
[00:03:45] trying to do is to keep salaries at their nominal
[00:03:48] value, what you say, but to start
[00:03:52] reducing, not directly, not in the sense of making a
[00:03:56] 20% bonus instead of 30%, but even to cut it
[00:03:59] definitively. That is, to cut it and build another
[00:04:02] mechanism through which people are rewarded for their
[00:04:06] work, which avoids these bonuses and two,
[00:04:10] to give them compensatory sums where salaries are higher and also
[00:04:13] something else, you understand why the major discrepancies
[00:04:17] between on the one hand, employees in
[00:04:20] central administration, local administration and on the other hand,
[00:04:23] executive personnel in the territory are maintained, although the law proclaims
[00:04:26] precisely unitarianism? No, I don't understand that, but I can understand,
[00:04:30] for example, why for certain categories of dignitaries, not only
[00:04:33] dignitaries, are incomes increased,
[00:04:37] indemnities, because they are indemnities, they are not salaries,
[00:04:41] dignitaries for about 10 years have not
[00:04:42] balanced
[00:04:45] or let's say, have not updated their
[00:04:48] management indemnities, because that's
[00:04:51] it, they are now feeling this frustration, that's why they
[00:04:55] changed the mechanism, they went from 12 to eight
[00:04:58] steps, they compressed the salary grid and two, they
[00:05:01] said: on the other hand, it starts from us
[00:05:05] downwards, because that's how it is, the salary grid starts from the highest, which
[00:05:08] is the highest, the president, that's how it was decided in Romania, in other countries it didn't exist.
[00:05:12] This form, well, from the moment you have
[00:05:15] established what the maximum level
[00:05:18] is, that is, step eight and the president has that
[00:05:21] salary, all the others go down, yes, with lower salaries, they cannot be
[00:05:25] higher, balance or equity
[00:05:28] is only done at this level, further
[00:05:31] down, large distortions begin to appear, and huge
[00:05:35] discrepancies that are very, very large, especially between, let's say,
[00:05:39] a beginner and someone who has been there for five years, where the beginner
[00:05:42] surpasses the one who has five years of experience or has been employed for five years. How
[00:05:46] will the budget deficit be covered from your point of view
[00:05:50] if Parliament, let's say, accepts the salary
[00:05:52] increases,
[00:05:55] requested by the unions, which amount to 20 billion lei
[00:05:58] instead of the ceiling of 12.1 billion,
[00:06:02] if I'm not mistaken, imposed by fiscal sustainability, in fact?
[00:06:06] These are simply sums that are thrown out to impress, neither
[00:06:10] 20 billion, nor 12 billion. The only sum we truly
[00:06:14] know is the 8 billion that the government has accepted,
[00:06:17] for now all other sums are variable sums, meaning
[00:06:21] what we give, what we take. Here, the discussion is about 8
[00:06:24] billion. The government is trying, in fact, to maintain this value, because
[00:06:28] this value is financeable, meaning it has provided
[00:06:32] for it in the future budget and comes from certain
[00:06:35] expenses or from certain revenues. What the unions
[00:06:38] want to do is to change, to overturn the table and say: "We don't want
[00:06:42] it like this anymore." "We want it to be like this and when you look at how much it would cost
[00:06:45] this way, it means maybe 20 billion, but of course here there's
[00:06:49] another discussion, some wonder, instead of reducing
[00:06:53] incomes, wouldn't you, as a state, want to reduce
[00:06:56] the tax burden, to reduce the cost of labor and
[00:06:59] then maybe you don't need to reduce salaries, but you need to
[00:07:03] create compensation with tax deductions, for now,
[00:07:07] optimistic about maintaining
[00:07:11] the country's rating." and at the next major
[00:07:14] agency, we're talking about Moody's now, what do you think it's
[00:07:17] based on? Well, it's based on very clear things: first of all, being
[00:07:21] in the European Union, a possible entry into the junk category of
[00:07:25] a member of the European Union creates a general
[00:07:27] problem.
[00:07:31] Secondly, in fact, Fitch, meaning the first agency that
[00:07:35] gave us this
[00:07:37] rating, gave it to the others, gave it
[00:07:41] to the others. The continuation of the same mechanism,
[00:07:44] that is, to be very clear, it is unlikely that another agency will see
[00:07:48] things differently now, in six months, yes, it
[00:07:52] could be, in fact what we have gained now is
[00:07:55] a suspension of the decision regarding investment
[00:07:58] grade, that is, the junk status, but this is a very,
[00:08:02] how can I say, dangerous problem, because everyone
[00:08:06] has seen, I am referring to those from abroad, investors, governments and
[00:08:09] so on, has seen that we are actually in this situation. And that we have been
[00:08:13] granted a reprieve, I don't think this is necessarily a good thing, this is just a
[00:08:17] way to alert and warn everyone about what is happening. Claudiu Lucaci,
[00:08:20] thank you for your presence and for the analysis. Let's move
[00:08:24] on. USR has notified the Constitutional Court regarding the ANI law
[00:08:27] that could leave Dominic Fritz without his mandate as mayor of
[00:08:31] Timișoara. This is the same project that provides that partners
[00:08:34] of dignitaries must also submit wealth declarations. The CCR will analyze
[00:08:38] the notification on August 12th, USR claims that the normative act
[00:08:41] violates more constitutional principles and represents
[00:08:44] political dedication. The ANI law is a key milestone in
[00:08:47] the PNR and if it does not come into force by August 31st, Romania will
[00:08:51] lose almost 800 million
[00:08:53] euros.
[00:09:02] Hundreds of residents of Slobozia protested in front of the prefecture and demanded
[00:09:06] clean air and potable water in the network. People have reached
[00:09:09] their limit due to the bad smell that... poisons them drop by
[00:09:13] drop, they all point fingers at the company that manages wastewater
[00:09:17] in the city.
[00:09:19] The inability of local authorities to provide them with clean air
[00:09:23] brought people to the streets. Literally, not even with
[00:09:27] the windows and doors closed, you couldn't stay
[00:09:30] indoors. We live in a very polluted city,
[00:09:33] it's, it's terrible not to be able
[00:09:37] to breathe. The fact is that from 2024
[00:09:40] they destroyed us and in 2020. six they effectively gassed us.
[00:09:44] The company that manages wastewater in Slobozia is one of the
[00:09:48] polluters, say the protesters, and the Environmental Guard
[00:09:51] agrees with them, having found exceedances of hydrogen sulfide
[00:09:55] concentration in the atmosphere. Representatives of the
[00:09:58] Ialomița Environmental Guard say that ammoniacal nitrogen
[00:10:01] enters the wastewater treatment plant with a concentration of
[00:10:05] 80 mg per liter and paradoxically comes out with a
[00:10:09] concentration of 90 mg.
[00:10:12] A concentration that goes into the Ialomița River and is
[00:10:15] 45 times higher than the maximum allowed limits. The exceedances
[00:10:19] are fantastically high for hydrogen sulfide. In conditions where
[00:10:23] we find.
[00:10:25] that not all measures have been implemented, we will make a new notification to suspend
[00:10:29] the environmental permit. The company is under the subordination of the county council, but
[00:10:32] the president of the institution refused any explanations, the director of the
[00:10:36] company admits, however, that there are problems. I took over
[00:10:39] this company four months ago,
[00:10:43] I launched several
[00:10:47] investments, I injected bacteria to
[00:10:50] reduce odors, all wastewater
[00:10:53] that enters our treatment
[00:10:56] plant is measured and we find that
[00:10:59] there are, there are very large increases and
[00:11:02] we don't know where they come from. A solution,
[00:11:06] from my point of view, and it is medium to long term, would be for the County
[00:11:10] Council and the Slobozia City Hall to invest more money in this
[00:11:13] wastewater treatment plant. Following the complaints made by the Environmental
[00:11:17] Guard, the police opened a criminal case against the former director of the
[00:11:20] company. He is under judicial control for non-compliance with
[00:11:24] environmental standards. The restoration
[00:11:27] of the Coțofenești helmet will be able to be monitored in real time. The National
[00:11:30] Museum of History has prepared a special web page where the entire process
[00:11:34] will be explained by experts. After the theft in the Netherlands, the treasury
[00:11:38] object suffered small modifications and specialists will try to bring it as
[00:11:42] close as possible to its original form.
[00:11:45] After establishing that it is indeed the original, the helmet will be
[00:11:49] restored with a complex methodology, elaborated by specialists
[00:11:52] from the country and from abroad. It
[00:11:55] began with a series of imaging investigations performed by
[00:11:58] physicists, chemists, and other experts. Our
[00:12:02] investigative colleagues are essential. We cannot understand certain aspects
[00:12:05] of the conservation status of objects, as long as we do not have
[00:12:09] specific analyses for each individual
[00:12:13] restoration is to understand the needs of the object, not
[00:12:17] to impose your own needs as a restorer. The thieves who
[00:12:21] stole it from the Dutch museum damaged it, and now the restorers
[00:12:24] will... use delicate methods to bring it back to its
[00:12:27] correct form. Metallography confirmed
[00:12:30] that the metal supports restoration interventions, some
[00:12:34] custom molds
[00:12:37] made of a thermoplastic material
[00:12:40] that are not adhesive, so they will not affect the
[00:12:43] helmet in any way, meaning they do not stick, they do not attach
[00:12:47] mechanically to the helmet, but with the help of these molds
[00:12:51] the helmet will be gradually
[00:12:54] restored to its initial form. The National
[00:12:58] Museum of History specifies that the entire restoration process can
[00:13:01] be followed on a special web page. The Coțofenești helmet
[00:13:05] was stolen in January last year from a museum in the Netherlands along with
[00:13:09] three Dacian bracelets. Two of these and the helmet were
[00:13:12] recovered and brought back to the country in April this year.
[00:13:15] The objects were presented to the public in a special ceremony and
[00:13:19] then displayed for a few days at the National Museum of
[00:13:22] History.
[00:13:28] Untold resonates from today in Cluj Napoca, followed by four days and
[00:13:32] especially four nights of fun at Cluj Arena and in the Central Park, great
[00:13:35] artists, some for the first time in Romania and many other surprises have been prepared
[00:13:39] by the organizers this year too. Sting is the main star of the
[00:13:43] first evening of the festival, and my colleague Ovidiu Damian is live from
[00:13:46] there. Ovidiu, good evening, what's the atmosphere like there and
[00:13:50] in how much time will Sting
[00:13:51] go on stage?
[00:13:55] Good evening Alina and to you and our viewers, the atmosphere is
[00:13:58] incendiary, as you will see immediately, right now Smiley is
[00:14:02] on stage, at the main stage and earlier around 6:30 PM
[00:14:06] it was Alexandra Cămitănescu who gathered all the
[00:14:09] Eurovision fans who sang along with her in the front
[00:14:13] rows here. Let's say that the festival opened its doors
[00:14:16] today at 4:00 PM, partygoers came here to
[00:14:19] the venue and as you said, four days and. four
[00:14:23] nights of fun here at Untold One, in Cluj
[00:14:27] Napoca. 10:00 PM is the moment for
[00:14:29] Sting to meet the audience and the organizers
[00:14:33] promise a lot of fun. I also want to tell you,
[00:14:36] Alina, that usually when we talk about festivals, especially of such a scale, we
[00:14:40] refer to artists and activities, but I want to bring
[00:14:44] volunteers into the discussion. Yesterday I had the opportunity to interact with
[00:14:48] them. There are over 1800 teenagers and young people from all
[00:14:51] over Romania and who ensure that festival-goers have all
[00:14:55] the necessary comfort. There are also NGOs present at the festival
[00:14:58] that conduct awareness campaigns regarding people with disabilities,
[00:15:02] issues related to mental health or ecology
[00:15:05] and recycling. Well,
[00:15:09] nine stages have been prepared by the organizers
[00:15:13] for this major event that extends throughout
[00:15:17] the weekend, many artists, many activities, but also a
[00:15:20] sensory lodge where the volume of music
[00:15:24] and lights and even temperature can be set in such
[00:15:27] a way that people with neurodevelopmental problems can
[00:15:31] feel included in this festival.
[00:15:34] You should also know that in Cluj-Napoca these days, as in previous
[00:15:38] years, there is a debate between those who wear wristbands and
[00:15:42] those who have earplugs, as I saw in local
[00:15:45] press headlines, the former want the festival to remain with
[00:15:49] the same configuration and to take place here in the city, while the
[00:15:53] latter would very much like it to be held somewhere on the outskirts of the city or
[00:15:57] for the program to end a little earlier so as not to disturb the peace, well,
[00:16:00] in any case, the discussion is for next year's edition, because this year's
[00:16:04] has started and has started strong, I tell you once again.
[00:16:07] Smiley on stage behind me, almost finishing his
[00:16:11] show, and those present here are waiting for Sting at
[00:16:15] 10 PM. We will return with updates throughout
[00:16:18] the festival, that's all for now from Cluj-Napoca, back to you,
[00:16:22] Alina. Thank you, it's almost impossible for me to
[00:16:25] go back to the news, but I have no choice. Thank you very much for the information. Let's move
[00:16:29] on. August 25th is the deadline by which all
[00:16:33] city halls must be enrolled in the ghiceul.ro platform,
[00:16:36] a quarter of these have not complied, most of them from rural
[00:16:40] areas, thus over 2 million Romanians do not benefit from the advantages
[00:16:44] of digitalization. The governors warn mayors that they risk
[00:16:47] losing budget allocations. With
[00:16:50] over 2000 inhabitants, Negrilești is among the eight communes
[00:16:53] in Bistrița Năsăud that are not yet registered on ghiceul.ro.
[00:16:57] The authorities claim that the process was delayed due to
[00:17:00] costs. We analyzed several
[00:17:02] offers regarding the transaction
[00:17:06] costs. that are made and so we wanted to analyze this part
[00:17:10] more carefully, to be more certain and to come to the
[00:17:13] aid of citizens with lower
[00:17:16] transaction costs. We just got possession of
[00:17:20] the POS, we are trying to submit the request and we are missing some
[00:17:24] information for gicheu.ro, but we are
[00:17:26] in the final stretch.
[00:17:30] Locals say it would be easier for them to pay taxes online.
[00:17:34] diceul.ro, I haven't heard, you haven't heard, but about the possibility of...
[00:17:37] paying taxes and fines online, have
[00:17:40] you heard, have you heard
[00:17:43] about that? So, do you have cards, we have them, especially for us, for us
[00:17:47] young people who are better with the internet, not for the elderly,
[00:17:50] but we can teach them or help them if we can. In the same situation are
[00:17:54] 28 city halls in Iași county, but many people in the villages
[00:17:58] have never heard of the ghiceul.ro platform and have
[00:18:01] no cards at all. Do you pay taxes online?
[00:18:05] No, no, no, no.
[00:18:09] We pay at the city hall, have you heard of ghiseul.ro? We peasant women, no, we don't
[00:18:13] really deal with that, I'm not good with the internet. But do
[00:18:16] you have a bank card? No, we need to allocate some money because we
[00:18:20] cannot, we cannot implement this system with the city hall's
[00:18:23] own apparatus, we find funds, there are none, but we find
[00:18:27] the necessary funds, given the deadline we have.
[00:18:30] 913 communes and six cities are not registered on
[00:18:33] the online tax payment platform, most of them are from
[00:18:37] Teleorman, Dolj, Mehedinți and Caraș Severin. In a Facebook
[00:18:40] post, interim Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu informed them that they risk losing
[00:18:44] state funds if they do not meet the deadline.
[00:18:48] Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court has charged the former
[00:18:51] ambassador to the United States, Olga Ștevneașina. She was
[00:18:55] suspected of having spent much more than she earned from her
[00:18:59] ambassador's salary and was set a bail of $130,000.
[00:19:02] She was recalled from office by President Zelensky on August 3rd.
[00:19:06] Prosecutors accuse her of... being unable to explain the origin of the money with which she
[00:19:10] bought two apartments in Kyiv, a luxury car and
[00:19:13] for several trips abroad.
[00:19:15] Moscow announces that it will not recall
[00:19:18] its ambassador from Romania for consultations, but warns that
[00:19:21] the expulsion of the Russian diplomat by the authorities in Bucharest will
[00:19:24] receive an adequate response, I quote.
[00:19:27] The statement was made today by the deputy director of the communication department of
[00:19:31] the Russian Foreign Ministry, it is a reaction to the decision of the Romanian
[00:19:35] authorities to declare a member of the Russian diplomatic mission persona non grata after
[00:19:38] Russian drones penetrated our airspace and were
[00:19:42] shot down. Following the incidents, the Russian ambassador to Bucharest was
[00:19:45] summoned to the foreign ministry to be handed our country's
[00:19:49] official protest, and the Romanian ambassador to Moscow was recalled to Bucharest
[00:19:53] for consultations. The Russian Foreign Ministry rejects the accusations and
[00:19:57] describes the measure as an unfriendly
[00:20:01] gesture. Ladies and gentlemen, Pulsul Zilei ends
[00:20:05] here. Thank you for your attention. From 9 PM, Onică awaits you at
[00:20:08] Prim Plan, have a peaceful evening, see you soon.