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00:00:02lose money from the PNR.
00:00:05Claudiu Lucaci, the producer of the show "Ultima Ediție" has joined me on
00:00:08set. Good evening, thank you for being here, Claudiu. The unitary salary law
00:00:12is essentially marking time, but our sources
00:00:16say there are some mechanisms that will
00:00:20bring the authorities' solutions closer to the
00:00:23unions' demands. My question is, where do you expect
00:00:26the compromises to be made, who and from
00:00:30where, so that there are fewer and fewer categories
00:00:33of employees, of workers who are
00:00:37revolted. We must keep one thing in mind: the discussions
00:00:41that we see taking place at Cotroceni Palace
00:00:44with the advisor appointed by the new president are with the
00:00:48parties, with the party leaders and with the unions
00:00:51on the other hand, for now, they have started for now,
00:00:55the discussions that are advancing or not, as he
00:00:57said. In good spirits in two weeks, in fact, even the Prime Minister said that
00:01:01he participated first in approximately two weeks from now, there will be
00:01:05in fact, there are two separate things, one is what the politicians want,
00:01:08meaning the parliament, because we are talking
00:01:11about the parliamentary parties, the other is what the unions
00:01:15want, what is interesting is that
00:01:18the dialogue is not conducted with everyone or in
00:01:21groups, it could be sectoral, it is conducted in general, it is conducted
00:01:24in this political way, let's do something because we are losing
00:01:28770 million. If we do not meet the respective milestone, which is
00:01:32the approval, the adoption of the law, and a
00:01:36different kind of discussion is held with the unions, what can we do to
00:01:39satisfy you somewhat, not, not to
00:01:42appear in these negotiations,
00:01:46well, this
00:01:48support. The general idea of is a false form of negotiation, meaning it does not lead
00:01:51to a common result, but leads to two types of results, on the one hand
00:01:55political, on the other hand that of society, of the unions that
00:01:58represent society. But you should know that the budget is the same, the money is
00:02:02the same, ultimately it must be this
00:02:05is the next,
00:02:08this leadership of the state, I mean the government and
00:02:11parliament, has a parliamentary majority through the respective parties,
00:02:14wants to check off, checked off in the sense of
00:02:17adopted, a law that would lead
00:02:21to the entry into the country of 770 million euros,
00:02:24this is the contradiction, the unions say that we are not
00:02:28interested in the end. You will check off and get
00:02:31770 million, because what follows for a long
00:02:35period of time will be a greater loss than what enters the
00:02:38country now at this moment, this is, these are two
00:02:42totally contrary opinions, meaning it is clear that they cannot agree on this aspect
00:02:46and then the unions will sabotage in the sense that
00:02:49they will refuse to I am referring to the union confederations
00:02:53now, but also to those who are not represented by them, they will try to
00:02:57block the adoption of this law in the way it was. You understand
00:03:00what happens if on paper salaries do not decrease
00:03:03nominally, how are the categories that
00:03:07lose significant sums by cutting bonuses protected from
00:03:11the forecasted inflation? Salaries do not decrease, incomes decrease and
00:03:14here is, let's say, the big problem of the unions, which is also the
00:03:18people's problem, meaning, no, unions are not a separate entity from
00:03:21employees, so the idea is the following: this scheme that was
00:03:25made regarding the new salary has a
00:03:28single principle with.
00:03:30how do we reduce the salary envelope? It's simple, at
00:03:34the level of the budgetary or public system,
00:03:37from this question you can only get out in one way, by
00:03:41reduction, because it's nonsense otherwise, no, and what the government is
00:03:45trying to do is to keep salaries at their nominal
00:03:48value, what you say, but to start
00:03:52reducing, not directly, not in the sense of making a
00:03:5620% bonus instead of 30%, but even to cut it
00:03:59definitively. That is, to cut it and build another
00:04:02mechanism through which people are rewarded for their
00:04:06work, which avoids these bonuses and two,
00:04:10to give them compensatory sums where salaries are higher and also
00:04:13something else, you understand why the major discrepancies
00:04:17between on the one hand, employees in
00:04:20central administration, local administration and on the other hand,
00:04:23executive personnel in the territory are maintained, although the law proclaims
00:04:26precisely unitarianism? No, I don't understand that, but I can understand,
00:04:30for example, why for certain categories of dignitaries, not only
00:04:33dignitaries, are incomes increased,
00:04:37indemnities, because they are indemnities, they are not salaries,
00:04:41dignitaries for about 10 years have not
00:04:42balanced
00:04:45or let's say, have not updated their
00:04:48management indemnities, because that's
00:04:51it, they are now feeling this frustration, that's why they
00:04:55changed the mechanism, they went from 12 to eight
00:04:58steps, they compressed the salary grid and two, they
00:05:01said: on the other hand, it starts from us
00:05:05downwards, because that's how it is, the salary grid starts from the highest, which
00:05:08is the highest, the president, that's how it was decided in Romania, in other countries it didn't exist.
00:05:12This form, well, from the moment you have
00:05:15established what the maximum level
00:05:18is, that is, step eight and the president has that
00:05:21salary, all the others go down, yes, with lower salaries, they cannot be
00:05:25higher, balance or equity
00:05:28is only done at this level, further
00:05:31down, large distortions begin to appear, and huge
00:05:35discrepancies that are very, very large, especially between, let's say,
00:05:39a beginner and someone who has been there for five years, where the beginner
00:05:42surpasses the one who has five years of experience or has been employed for five years. How
00:05:46will the budget deficit be covered from your point of view
00:05:50if Parliament, let's say, accepts the salary
00:05:52increases,
00:05:55requested by the unions, which amount to 20 billion lei
00:05:58instead of the ceiling of 12.1 billion,
00:06:02if I'm not mistaken, imposed by fiscal sustainability, in fact?
00:06:06These are simply sums that are thrown out to impress, neither
00:06:1020 billion, nor 12 billion. The only sum we truly
00:06:14know is the 8 billion that the government has accepted,
00:06:17for now all other sums are variable sums, meaning
00:06:21what we give, what we take. Here, the discussion is about 8
00:06:24billion. The government is trying, in fact, to maintain this value, because
00:06:28this value is financeable, meaning it has provided
00:06:32for it in the future budget and comes from certain
00:06:35expenses or from certain revenues. What the unions
00:06:38want to do is to change, to overturn the table and say: "We don't want
00:06:42it like this anymore." "We want it to be like this and when you look at how much it would cost
00:06:45this way, it means maybe 20 billion, but of course here there's
00:06:49another discussion, some wonder, instead of reducing
00:06:53incomes, wouldn't you, as a state, want to reduce
00:06:56the tax burden, to reduce the cost of labor and
00:06:59then maybe you don't need to reduce salaries, but you need to
00:07:03create compensation with tax deductions, for now,
00:07:07optimistic about maintaining
00:07:11the country's rating." and at the next major
00:07:14agency, we're talking about Moody's now, what do you think it's
00:07:17based on? Well, it's based on very clear things: first of all, being
00:07:21in the European Union, a possible entry into the junk category of
00:07:25a member of the European Union creates a general
00:07:27problem.
00:07:31Secondly, in fact, Fitch, meaning the first agency that
00:07:35gave us this
00:07:37rating, gave it to the others, gave it
00:07:41to the others. The continuation of the same mechanism,
00:07:44that is, to be very clear, it is unlikely that another agency will see
00:07:48things differently now, in six months, yes, it
00:07:52could be, in fact what we have gained now is
00:07:55a suspension of the decision regarding investment
00:07:58grade, that is, the junk status, but this is a very,
00:08:02how can I say, dangerous problem, because everyone
00:08:06has seen, I am referring to those from abroad, investors, governments and
00:08:09so on, has seen that we are actually in this situation. And that we have been
00:08:13granted a reprieve, I don't think this is necessarily a good thing, this is just a
00:08:17way to alert and warn everyone about what is happening. Claudiu Lucaci,
00:08:20thank you for your presence and for the analysis. Let's move
00:08:24on. USR has notified the Constitutional Court regarding the ANI law
00:08:27that could leave Dominic Fritz without his mandate as mayor of
00:08:31Timișoara. This is the same project that provides that partners
00:08:34of dignitaries must also submit wealth declarations. The CCR will analyze
00:08:38the notification on August 12th, USR claims that the normative act
00:08:41violates more constitutional principles and represents
00:08:44political dedication. The ANI law is a key milestone in
00:08:47the PNR and if it does not come into force by August 31st, Romania will
00:08:51lose almost 800 million
00:08:53euros.
00:09:02Hundreds of residents of Slobozia protested in front of the prefecture and demanded
00:09:06clean air and potable water in the network. People have reached
00:09:09their limit due to the bad smell that... poisons them drop by
00:09:13drop, they all point fingers at the company that manages wastewater
00:09:17in the city.
00:09:19The inability of local authorities to provide them with clean air
00:09:23brought people to the streets. Literally, not even with
00:09:27the windows and doors closed, you couldn't stay
00:09:30indoors. We live in a very polluted city,
00:09:33it's, it's terrible not to be able
00:09:37to breathe. The fact is that from 2024
00:09:40they destroyed us and in 2020. six they effectively gassed us.
00:09:44The company that manages wastewater in Slobozia is one of the
00:09:48polluters, say the protesters, and the Environmental Guard
00:09:51agrees with them, having found exceedances of hydrogen sulfide
00:09:55concentration in the atmosphere. Representatives of the
00:09:58Ialomița Environmental Guard say that ammoniacal nitrogen
00:10:01enters the wastewater treatment plant with a concentration of
00:10:0580 mg per liter and paradoxically comes out with a
00:10:09concentration of 90 mg.
00:10:12A concentration that goes into the Ialomița River and is
00:10:1545 times higher than the maximum allowed limits. The exceedances
00:10:19are fantastically high for hydrogen sulfide. In conditions where
00:10:23we find.
00:10:25that not all measures have been implemented, we will make a new notification to suspend
00:10:29the environmental permit. The company is under the subordination of the county council, but
00:10:32the president of the institution refused any explanations, the director of the
00:10:36company admits, however, that there are problems. I took over
00:10:39this company four months ago,
00:10:43I launched several
00:10:47investments, I injected bacteria to
00:10:50reduce odors, all wastewater
00:10:53that enters our treatment
00:10:56plant is measured and we find that
00:10:59there are, there are very large increases and
00:11:02we don't know where they come from. A solution,
00:11:06from my point of view, and it is medium to long term, would be for the County
00:11:10Council and the Slobozia City Hall to invest more money in this
00:11:13wastewater treatment plant. Following the complaints made by the Environmental
00:11:17Guard, the police opened a criminal case against the former director of the
00:11:20company. He is under judicial control for non-compliance with
00:11:24environmental standards. The restoration
00:11:27of the Coțofenești helmet will be able to be monitored in real time. The National
00:11:30Museum of History has prepared a special web page where the entire process
00:11:34will be explained by experts. After the theft in the Netherlands, the treasury
00:11:38object suffered small modifications and specialists will try to bring it as
00:11:42close as possible to its original form.
00:11:45After establishing that it is indeed the original, the helmet will be
00:11:49restored with a complex methodology, elaborated by specialists
00:11:52from the country and from abroad. It
00:11:55began with a series of imaging investigations performed by
00:11:58physicists, chemists, and other experts. Our
00:12:02investigative colleagues are essential. We cannot understand certain aspects
00:12:05of the conservation status of objects, as long as we do not have
00:12:09specific analyses for each individual
00:12:13restoration is to understand the needs of the object, not
00:12:17to impose your own needs as a restorer. The thieves who
00:12:21stole it from the Dutch museum damaged it, and now the restorers
00:12:24will... use delicate methods to bring it back to its
00:12:27correct form. Metallography confirmed
00:12:30that the metal supports restoration interventions, some
00:12:34custom molds
00:12:37made of a thermoplastic material
00:12:40that are not adhesive, so they will not affect the
00:12:43helmet in any way, meaning they do not stick, they do not attach
00:12:47mechanically to the helmet, but with the help of these molds
00:12:51the helmet will be gradually
00:12:54restored to its initial form. The National
00:12:58Museum of History specifies that the entire restoration process can
00:13:01be followed on a special web page. The Coțofenești helmet
00:13:05was stolen in January last year from a museum in the Netherlands along with
00:13:09three Dacian bracelets. Two of these and the helmet were
00:13:12recovered and brought back to the country in April this year.
00:13:15The objects were presented to the public in a special ceremony and
00:13:19then displayed for a few days at the National Museum of
00:13:22History.
00:13:28Untold resonates from today in Cluj Napoca, followed by four days and
00:13:32especially four nights of fun at Cluj Arena and in the Central Park, great
00:13:35artists, some for the first time in Romania and many other surprises have been prepared
00:13:39by the organizers this year too. Sting is the main star of the
00:13:43first evening of the festival, and my colleague Ovidiu Damian is live from
00:13:46there. Ovidiu, good evening, what's the atmosphere like there and
00:13:50in how much time will Sting
00:13:51go on stage?
00:13:55Good evening Alina and to you and our viewers, the atmosphere is
00:13:58incendiary, as you will see immediately, right now Smiley is
00:14:02on stage, at the main stage and earlier around 6:30 PM
00:14:06it was Alexandra Cămitănescu who gathered all the
00:14:09Eurovision fans who sang along with her in the front
00:14:13rows here. Let's say that the festival opened its doors
00:14:16today at 4:00 PM, partygoers came here to
00:14:19the venue and as you said, four days and. four
00:14:23nights of fun here at Untold One, in Cluj
00:14:27Napoca. 10:00 PM is the moment for
00:14:29Sting to meet the audience and the organizers
00:14:33promise a lot of fun. I also want to tell you,
00:14:36Alina, that usually when we talk about festivals, especially of such a scale, we
00:14:40refer to artists and activities, but I want to bring
00:14:44volunteers into the discussion. Yesterday I had the opportunity to interact with
00:14:48them. There are over 1800 teenagers and young people from all
00:14:51over Romania and who ensure that festival-goers have all
00:14:55the necessary comfort. There are also NGOs present at the festival
00:14:58that conduct awareness campaigns regarding people with disabilities,
00:15:02issues related to mental health or ecology
00:15:05and recycling. Well,
00:15:09nine stages have been prepared by the organizers
00:15:13for this major event that extends throughout
00:15:17the weekend, many artists, many activities, but also a
00:15:20sensory lodge where the volume of music
00:15:24and lights and even temperature can be set in such
00:15:27a way that people with neurodevelopmental problems can
00:15:31feel included in this festival.
00:15:34You should also know that in Cluj-Napoca these days, as in previous
00:15:38years, there is a debate between those who wear wristbands and
00:15:42those who have earplugs, as I saw in local
00:15:45press headlines, the former want the festival to remain with
00:15:49the same configuration and to take place here in the city, while the
00:15:53latter would very much like it to be held somewhere on the outskirts of the city or
00:15:57for the program to end a little earlier so as not to disturb the peace, well,
00:16:00in any case, the discussion is for next year's edition, because this year's
00:16:04has started and has started strong, I tell you once again.
00:16:07Smiley on stage behind me, almost finishing his
00:16:11show, and those present here are waiting for Sting at
00:16:1510 PM. We will return with updates throughout
00:16:18the festival, that's all for now from Cluj-Napoca, back to you,
00:16:22Alina. Thank you, it's almost impossible for me to
00:16:25go back to the news, but I have no choice. Thank you very much for the information. Let's move
00:16:29on. August 25th is the deadline by which all
00:16:33city halls must be enrolled in the ghiceul.ro platform,
00:16:36a quarter of these have not complied, most of them from rural
00:16:40areas, thus over 2 million Romanians do not benefit from the advantages
00:16:44of digitalization. The governors warn mayors that they risk
00:16:47losing budget allocations. With
00:16:50over 2000 inhabitants, Negrilești is among the eight communes
00:16:53in Bistrița Năsăud that are not yet registered on ghiceul.ro.
00:16:57The authorities claim that the process was delayed due to
00:17:00costs. We analyzed several
00:17:02offers regarding the transaction
00:17:06costs. that are made and so we wanted to analyze this part
00:17:10more carefully, to be more certain and to come to the
00:17:13aid of citizens with lower
00:17:16transaction costs. We just got possession of
00:17:20the POS, we are trying to submit the request and we are missing some
00:17:24information for gicheu.ro, but we are
00:17:26in the final stretch.
00:17:30Locals say it would be easier for them to pay taxes online.
00:17:34diceul.ro, I haven't heard, you haven't heard, but about the possibility of...
00:17:37paying taxes and fines online, have
00:17:40you heard, have you heard
00:17:43about that? So, do you have cards, we have them, especially for us, for us
00:17:47young people who are better with the internet, not for the elderly,
00:17:50but we can teach them or help them if we can. In the same situation are
00:17:5428 city halls in Iași county, but many people in the villages
00:17:58have never heard of the ghiceul.ro platform and have
00:18:01no cards at all. Do you pay taxes online?
00:18:05No, no, no, no.
00:18:09We pay at the city hall, have you heard of ghiseul.ro? We peasant women, no, we don't
00:18:13really deal with that, I'm not good with the internet. But do
00:18:16you have a bank card? No, we need to allocate some money because we
00:18:20cannot, we cannot implement this system with the city hall's
00:18:23own apparatus, we find funds, there are none, but we find
00:18:27the necessary funds, given the deadline we have.
00:18:30913 communes and six cities are not registered on
00:18:33the online tax payment platform, most of them are from
00:18:37Teleorman, Dolj, Mehedinți and Caraș Severin. In a Facebook
00:18:40post, interim Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu informed them that they risk losing
00:18:44state funds if they do not meet the deadline.
00:18:48Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court has charged the former
00:18:51ambassador to the United States, Olga Ștevneașina. She was
00:18:55suspected of having spent much more than she earned from her
00:18:59ambassador's salary and was set a bail of $130,000.
00:19:02She was recalled from office by President Zelensky on August 3rd.
00:19:06Prosecutors accuse her of... being unable to explain the origin of the money with which she
00:19:10bought two apartments in Kyiv, a luxury car and
00:19:13for several trips abroad.
00:19:15Moscow announces that it will not recall
00:19:18its ambassador from Romania for consultations, but warns that
00:19:21the expulsion of the Russian diplomat by the authorities in Bucharest will
00:19:24receive an adequate response, I quote.
00:19:27The statement was made today by the deputy director of the communication department of
00:19:31the Russian Foreign Ministry, it is a reaction to the decision of the Romanian
00:19:35authorities to declare a member of the Russian diplomatic mission persona non grata after
00:19:38Russian drones penetrated our airspace and were
00:19:42shot down. Following the incidents, the Russian ambassador to Bucharest was
00:19:45summoned to the foreign ministry to be handed our country's
00:19:49official protest, and the Romanian ambassador to Moscow was recalled to Bucharest
00:19:53for consultations. The Russian Foreign Ministry rejects the accusations and
00:19:57describes the measure as an unfriendly
00:20:01gesture. Ladies and gentlemen, Pulsul Zilei ends
00:20:05here. Thank you for your attention. From 9 PM, Onică awaits you at
00:20:08Prim Plan, have a peaceful evening, see you soon.