Press review

Romanian prosecutors sent to court 26 members of a crime network and temporary arrested 18 of them accused of introducing 181 minors in Great Britain to steal and beg, a press release of the institution reads. The British daily Daily Mail notes on Friday that 200 Rroma children were brought illegally in Great Britain by a human trafficking network.

Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea was eliminated in the quarter finals of the Istanbul tennis tour by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The Russian player imposed in a game that lasted one hour and twenty three minutes. 

Jordanian Health minister, Nayef Al Fayez, a doctor himself, appreciated during a meeting with officials in Mures county, Romania that Romania has one of the most evolved emergency systems in the world and Jordan would be interested to takeover the model, Romanian news agency Mediafax informs. 

​IMF talks do not account for tax increases in 2010 nor in 2011, for that matter, Finance minister Sebastian Vladescu said. The IMF mission does not change anything regarding taxes, Vladescu underlined for the Romanian news agency Medifax. 

​After the decision of the French government to intensify its expulsion policy of gipsy fellons in Romania and Bulgaria, the European Commission warns that in such cases, governments should act with precaution. Matthew Newman, spokesperson of the EC Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding declared for RFI that freedom of movement is a European right which both Bulgarian and Romanian citizens enjoy.

One newspaper reads on Friday how Romanians in Greece are handling the crisis. Elsewhere in the news, the government plans to pass a normative act to compell owners of houses to rehabilitate the facades. Last but not least, when they talk about Romania, foreigners want to know about Transylvania.