New busses for Romania’s capital
The City Hall of Romania’s capital Bucharest is reopening an auction concerning the purchase of some 400 Euro6 busses on Thursday after a similar move was blocked months ago following complaints. The country’s National Council for Solving Complaints found that 95 per cent of such moves were unfounded while ruling that other five should be solved. The newly established deadline is November 10 while the auction is expected to end in 25 days, according to a statement of Mayor General Gabriela Firea. Other 200 Euro6 busses were expected following an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as talks on the issue were mentioned by Ms. Firea in a statement last month.
Romania’s four legal codes under scrutiny
Romania’s four legal codes are under scrutiny and their evaluation just started, Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Thursday. „We are considering the four legal codes of the country including the Civil and Civil Procedure Codes, and the Penal and Penal Procedure Codes, and we already started such checks on Wednesday”, Minister Toader told Radio Romania. „We received thousands of proposals coming from the country’s Superior Council of Magistracy, Supreme Court, law schools and citizens and we established four groups expected to consider and discuss the proposals. And we do all these in order to make a choice before we put together a draft law designed to change the four codes”, Mr. Toader pointed out.
Mihail Sebastian Festival opening in Brăila
The fifths edition of the Mihail Sebastian Festival opens in the Romanian Danube port of Brăila on Thursday under the auspicies of the Romania’s Culture and National Identity Ministry. Participants will include artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Israel and the Republic of Moldova. The country’s Culture Minister Lucian Romaşcanu, and Dr. Aurel Vainer, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, are expected to open the event. The first day of the festival will include a Mihail Sebastian documentary directed by Mihai Vişinescu, an Amistad concert with Berti Barbera and Mariano Castro, an Argentinian artist, and „Nerantsula”, a drama by Brăilan French-speaking writer Panait Istrati performed by actors of the local „Maria Falotti” Theatre. Born as Iosif Mendel Hechter on October 18, 1907 in Brăila, Mihail Sebastian was a Romanian playwright, journalist and novelist who died in Bucharest on May 29, 1945.
Alexandru Danga
