Just your average government crisis

The government crisis in Romania continues: the designated prime minister Lucian Croitoru failed to achieve the requisite majority in a parliamentary vote of confidence held on Wednesday. No reason to panic, the daily Adevărul writes: "Many depict the political crisis as a kind of apocalypse for Romania. If you listen to the TV debates you get the impression that the country will come to a complete standstill and we'll all be paralysed until the political crisis is resolved. Nonsense! One of the great advances of the past 20 years is that life continues in the country no matter what's going on in the government or the presidential palace. Romania's problem is that the economy is still not sufficiently uncoupled from politics. … With a stable economy, a predictable financial situation and a long-term formula for fees and taxes the political crisis wouldn't bother anyone and would remain what it really is in Western states: nothing more than a power game."

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