Politics

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said his party is against the government’s constitutional amendment package both in essence and in the method it came about.

Speaking at his party’s parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, Bahçeli discussed the reasons for the MHP’s opposition to the proposed reform package, which contains 28 changes to the current Turkish Constitution, which was originally drafted during military rule following the Sept. 12, 1980 coup. The package, however, is seen as a major step toward Turkey’s democratization as the country finally challenges its civil-military relations, which fall short of complying with democratic standards.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems certain Romania will overcome crisis but not so fast. While greeting Strauss-Kahn at Cotroceni, Traian Basescu admitted he considers signing new stand-by assistance deal, or taking flexible credit line in the future.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) enforces constraint policies to discipline the states that cannot do so themselves. The IMF was and is for real, and it continues to support states like Romania or Hungary. The Fund focuses on fighting the crisis, though in the past it wished to save the world.

The premier on Saturday called upon MPs to urgently discuss draft laws tabled by executive. Heads of county directorates who delay salary payments to be dismissed.
The government sticks to its decision to increase teachers’ salaries by only 17 per cent under the applicable legislation and to schedule the payment of additional remuneration won in court for later on, as the executive cannot afford renouncing economic stability, PM Emil Boc said, quoted by Mediafax. Boc added that results of future economic growth would be reflected in people’s income but “obviously not today.” Boc also said pay inconsistencies were being caused by both court judgments granting education employees a 50 per cent rise (according to a law passed by Parliament in the autumn of 2008, although the government only accepted to give teachers 17 per cent pay rise in 2008 and has already abrogated the 33 per cent difference by normative acts), and by including bonuses unrecognised by current legislation into collective bargaining agreements.