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Let’s see: the Government calculated property restitution claims at some 16 billion EUR, hence the budget can cover only 15%, in installments over 10-12 years. Here’s an alternative financing plan, to not add insult to injury. The budget can afford 15%; by setting up Property Fund 2.0 you get another 20%; if you restitute in ···
When they analyzed the subsidies with cheap gas that the companies from Ioan Niculae’s Interagro Group benefited in the past years, NGO analysts were threatened with a lawsuit. In fact, today’s scandal concerning the discount granted on top of what a generous law allows is just the tip of the iceberg: the key problem is ···
The public sector in Romania can simply not function in the New Public Management paradigm – as the Bian corruption scandal indicated just a couple of weeks ago. The elimination of the bonuses (“stimulente”) in the public system allowed not only the waste of public resources, some 200 million EUR per year – but the ···
The vote on the Social Assistance Law this week is just the right opportunity to discuss options for sustainable policy on social assistance, as opposed to sheer populism. The poor administration of social assistance schemes in many European countries nearly drove the welfare straight into bankruptcy these years, pulling along the rest of the economy; ···
After six months of hilarious legislative initiatives destined to transpose the Third EU Energy Package that frightened the European Commission through lack of professionalism when they were sent in spring, the newly published proposals (in September) do not look better. We have analysed them in the current brief. They are produced in a contrary spirit to the ···
What is the future of hundreds of communities, small towns, artificially overdeveloped under communism? Can they survive, or must they disappear? Can they adapt in a competitive environment, or are they simply unsustainable and the state must think of some sort of “smart shrinking”, to help the locals cope with industry restructuring in a decent ···