How the Adidas concern came to be sued in Romania with a company from Chisinau, which sells sports shoes from Turkey ● Charging stations: the perception of Romanian drivers about charging services ● The state delays the settlement for photovoltaic panels by 2 years ● CSM prosecutors say that the deputy George Simion is trying to intimidate them and that they violate their independence ● Pescobar opens a restaurant Taverna Racilor in Cluj ● Scandal with criminal complaints between a postmaster and a local man whom he handcuffed ● The day an entire village went at school ● Romania has the most expensive budgets ● The management of Radio Iași has assumed ever smaller audience targets
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How did the German Adidas concern end up in a lawsuit in Romania with a company from Chisinau, which sells sports shoes from Turkey in the Republic of Moldova
In the summer of 2021, the plaintiff ADIDAS AG sued the defendant SC MIRARA-PRO SRL, a company registered in the Republic of Moldova, at the Bucharest Court, asking the court to compel the defendant to stop importing and selling sports shoes, which have 4 parallel stripes on the side external side, but bearing the names of trademarks registered in Turkey. The litigation was triggered after the Romanian customs officials confiscated, from a vehicle that was only in transit in Romania, more than 1,000 pairs of sports shoes that showed signs specific to the Adidas brand. What decisions have the Romanian judges made so far in this dispute, learn from JustNews article.
Charging stations: Romanian drivers’ perception of charging services
Roland Berger consulting company conducted a study on charging stations in Romania and drivers’ perception of the quality of services for charging electric cars.
The German consulting company Roland Berger has produced a new edition of the annual “EV Charging Index” study, which provides a detailed picture of the charging infrastructure and user perception of electric cars in 30 countries across five regions.
For the Romanian market, the new edition of the study highlights a number of positive aspects, where our country is better than the global average, but at the same time there are also a number of aspects that need to be improved in order to keep up with the increase in sales of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, writes Auto-Critic
The state delays the settlement for photovoltaic panels and 2 years each
The Romanian government is increasing, through the new package of fiscal measures caused by the hole in the budget, the VAT on photovoltaic panels from 5%, as it is currently, to 9%. Prosumers and solar panel installers complain to PressOne, however, that this increase is actually the least of their problems. In reality, the efforts to transition to a green energy, assumed in Brussels by Romania, hit a wall precisely when it comes to collaboration with state institutions, suppliers and distributors of electricity.
PressOne reviews the main dysfunctions in the production, consumption and distribution of energy from renewable sources, as revealed by discussions with prosumers and data provided by official sources, at the request of PressOne.
CSM prosecutors say that deputy George Simion is trying to intimidate them and is violating their independence
CSM prosecutors say that deputy George Simion is trying to intimidate them and is violating their independence, after AUR co-president George Simion, accompanied by about 100 supporters, came to the National Broadcasting Council (CNA) to protest the fines given to television stations who support him.
Since he was not allowed to enter, Simion and his entourage took turns taking the offices of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of the Environment and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) under the pretext of wanting to “wake up” state officials. CSM reacted, writes PressHub
Pescobar opens a Taverna Racilor restaurant in Cluj as well, after it “rained” with fines at the restaurant in the capital: “I feel like the final of the World Cup”
Paul Nicolau made the announcement: “Dear friends, the wait is over. I feel like in the final of the world cup when I also cross, I also head, I scored and came to Cluj. This is the location where we will open. The former location of Casa Dacilor becomes Taverna Racilor Cluj. Finally the miracle happens. After my several attempts to enter the too wonderful city of Cluj, it didn’t let up. I only found it here at Casa Dacilor”, writes Stiri de Cluj.
Scandal with criminal complaints between a postmaster and a local man whom he handcuffed
On September 6, a driver from Tărcaia, stopped in traffic for a routine check, was charged with a criminal case because he refused to be tested for drugs. An apparently trivial case, which, however, turned into a huge scandal, ended up in the investigation of the prosecutors, with the obstinate driver and the policeman who stopped him as suspects.
The two sued each other, for a series of crimes: the Tărcăian, Jónás Csaba, complained that the policeman, agent Costel Istoc, the head of the commune’s Police Station, acted brutally and handcuffed him for no good reason, causing him to refuse all that is required of him. His suspicion is that he did it to punish him, because, last year, he denounced him after he refused to stop a car with wood transported without a permit by a relative of the mayor. The policeman denies it and has also filed a report: he claims that the driver harasses him, drives around his family’s house and gossips about him for no reason in the commune, associating him, just out of malice, with all kinds of people and crimes. writes Bihoreanul.
The day an entire village went to school
Thousands of residents of Tufanu with Icoana, grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren, have never opened a book, never attended a celebration, never bowed their heads to be crowned. Until September 11, 2023.
Remus, the kid who is the leader of the group we talk to in Tufanu with Icoana, holds his sunglasses upside down, hanging from his ears and with the lenses around his neck. The children respectfully gather around him. The village of Tufanu in Argeș has never had a secondary school. After the fourth grade, children walk 7 kilometers back and forth “over the hill, through the forest”, to Mălureni.
They tell how the class is divided by a plasterboard wall: those from Mălureni, the Romanians, and those from Tufanu with Icoana, the Roma. But a teacher had an idea.
“One day, just before the end of school, our director from Mălureni took our colleagues over the hill on a trip, so they could see what it was like, because they were making us too ugly. Then they apologized to us. They said they wouldn’t have come like we did,” says Remus. And until then, those from Tufanu had allies: activists, their own powers and some voices from Mălureni. But after the teacher’s experiment, somehow, from the testimonies of the little Romanian visitors who came over the hill to Tufanu, a current of opinion was born. Discreetly at first, he acted in favor of this Roma village, subject to troubles since known, writes School9
Romania has the most expensive budgets
The fiscal changes prepared by the government will be carried by the private sector, while the budget holders will not feel much the effect of the reduction in expenses. This creates an inequity between the private and the state environment, according to Adrian Codirlașu, vice president of CFA Romania. The irony is that the Government chooses to manage the public administration employees in the conditions in which the budgets in Romania are the most “expensive” in the European Union, writes Wall-Street.ro
The management of Radio Iași assumed ever smaller audience targets
Libertatea came into possession of several internal documents of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company which show the fact that the two heads of the territorial studio in Iași – Radio Iași – assumed in front of the management audience figures over 30% lower than last year and almost 60% below those assumed in 2021.
According to the order of the SRR president from May 2023 approving the “specific annual objectives” of each studio in the territory, the manager of Radio Iași, Claudia Crăcăleanu, and the editor-in-chief, Nicolae Tomescu Stachie, committed that the local station will have an average annual audience of minimum 200,000 unique listeners per day, writes Freedom.
Three of the doctors from Marius Nasta, accused of bribery, cannot justify four million lei
Two doctors from Marius Nasta, accused of bribery, were pre-arrested on Thursday evening. Four remain under judicial control. Three of the accused who cannot justify their assets have their assets under seizure. All those targeted apologized to the hospital manager.
“There was a press article that brought accusations to some doctors from the Marius Nasta Institute, who had a behavior that is subject to criminal acts, and I sent that press article to the competent bodies to investigate according to the methods they know. As a manager, you have no way to investigate if you don’t have statements from the employees”, said Beatrice Mahler, the manager of the Marius Nasta Institute in Bucharest, on Thursday.
And he added that the complaint went to the authorities in December 2021, writes Free Europe.
Pessimistic forecasts of the OECD for Romania’s partners. Review of Romanian indicators by analysts
Although the grape harvest in 2023 is not over yet, it can already be said that the year 2024 does not bode well at all, as was anticipated in the spring. Neither for the global economy, nor for the European Union, let alone for Eastern Europe and Romania.
The last international institution to revise its forecast negatively is the OECD, the organization that brings together the world’s largest economies.
Although in the intermediate autumn forecast, the OECD does not include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the expectations regarding the evolution of the external economic environment in 2024 represent an important piece of the puzzle for developing forecasts at the regional level. In addition, Romania’s development will also be affected by the package of fiscal measures to reduce the budget deficit, which will further slow down economic expansion in 2024, write Governance Course
The freedom cry of 1989 doesn’t tell us much today
The cry of freedom in 1989, that “Freedom, freedom” that people said, in the central squares of the cities, with all the joy of the soul escaped from the dictatorship, no longer said as much today, after 33 years in which the right to being free seems natural to us.
And yet, this right can be lost in an instant, notes Tudor Giurgiu, the director of the film “Liberty”, which will have its gala premiere on October 2 and will be in cinemas from October 3.
The film talks about a controversial moment during the Revolution of 1989, when, in Sibiu, the Army, the Militia, the Security and the civilians who got their hands on guns shot at each other, convinced that they were shooting at terrorists, writes PressHub
Romania’s stake and role in the wheat war
Zelensky criticized Eastern European states for embargoing Ukrainian wheat.
The relationship between Poland and Ukraine has deteriorated recently due to the decision of the government in Warsaw to maintain the ban on grain from the neighboring country.
Romanian farmers announce that they had losses of 3 billion euros following the entry of cheap Ukrainian wheat into the market.
35 billion dollars is worth Ukraine’s grain production, money on which the functioning of the economy affected by the Russian invasion depends, writes SpotMedia
