The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved a EUR500 million loan to support a social assistance program of Romania’s government estimated at EUR5.5 billion. "Through this project, the World Bank is partnering with Romania to support the implementation of Romania's Social Assistance Reform Strategy, which was adopted by the Government in March 2010," the bank said in a news release. It said the project's objective is to improve the overall performance of Romania's social assistance system by strengthening performance management, improving equity and administrative efficiency, and reducing error and fraud. The project will focus on the government's programs for low-income households and vulnerable groups. The share of overall social assistance funds going to the poorest quintile is projected to increase from 37.7% in 2009 to at least 45% in 2014. "The Government of Romania has launched an ambitious and comprehensive social assistance reform program," says Peter Harrold, Country Director for Romania at the World Bank. "The World Bank welcomes the opportunity to work with the Government in implementing this program. We have together designed an innovative approach to achieving these ends, through the provision of financial support as each of twenty well-specified results are achieved in the Government's reform program for this key area." The bank also said that the implementation of the Social Assistance Reform Strategy will bring the fiscal cost of social assistance programs in line with the level of the new EU member states, and will contribute to the fiscal sustainability of the social protection spending. The approved project is a EUR500 million "results-based" specific investment loan over a three year period, supporting the Government of Romania's Social Assistance Program estimated at EUR5.5 billion.
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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved a EUR500 million loan to support a social assistance program of Romania’s government estimated at EUR5.5 billion. "Through this project, the World Bank is partnering with Romania to support the implementation of Romania's Social Assistance Reform Strategy, which was adopted by the Government in March 2010," the bank said in a news release. It said the project's objective is to improve the overall performance of Romania's social assistance system by strengthening performance management, improving equity and administrative efficiency, and reducing error and fraud. The project will focus on the government's programs for low-income households and vulnerable groups. The share of overall social assistance funds going to the poorest quintile is projected to increase from 37.7% in 2009 to at least 45% in 2014. "The Government of Romania has launched an ambitious and comprehensive social assistance reform program," says Peter Harrold, Country Director for Romania at the World Bank. "The World Bank welcomes the opportunity to work with the Government in implementing this program. We have together designed an innovative approach to achieving these ends, through the provision of financial support as each of twenty well-specified results are achieved in the Government's reform program for this key area." The bank also said that the implementation of the Social Assistance Reform Strategy will bring the fiscal cost of social assistance programs in line with the level of the new EU member states, and will contribute to the fiscal sustainability of the social protection spending. The approved project is a EUR500 million "results-based" specific investment loan over a three year period, supporting the Government of Romania's Social Assistance Program estimated at EUR5.5 billion.
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Kommunalbestyrelsen besluttede på sit seneste møde at fortsætte tilskuddet til Forsamlingshuset ved Vestervangskolen. Huset har ellers været truet af lukning.
Ib Lysell Clasen fra Dansk Folkeparti. Foto: Brian L. Jensen.
Brugerne af Forsamlingshuset på Vestervangskolen kan nu ånde lettet op. Forsamlingshuset, der blev oprettet i 1990 som et kulturcenter efter Folkeskoleloven, fortsætter nemlig. Og dét efter en tid med tegn på lukning.
I forsamlingshusets første tid var der mange aktiviteter for børn, forældre og andre voksne fra lokalmiljøet. Men besparelser gennem årene har reduceret forsamlingshuset til et caféprojekt. I dag har huset åbent 20 tirsdage i løbet af vinteren og benyttes flittigt primært af ældre borgere i kvarteret omkring Vestervangskolen. Fremmødet er normalt på 40-60 borgere ved hver samling.
Projektet, der hovedsagligt bliver drevet af frivillig arbejdskraft og en medarbejder ansat på skolen, så ud til at miste hele sit kommunale tilskud i forbindelse med vedtagelsen af budget 2011. Tilskuddet ville stoppe med virkning fra august, fordi projektet ikke længere faldt ind under Folkeskoleloven. Reaktionen kom i form af flere henvendelser til kommunen fra brugere af forsamlingshuset.
- De pegede på, at projektet blandt andet er med til at give skolen et positivt image, fortæller en af brugerne og midlertidigt kommunalbestyrelsesmedlem Ib Lysell Clasen fra Dansk Folkeparti.
Han glæder sig nu over, at lokalpolitikerne har valgt at lade forsamlingshuset fortsætte med halvt tilskud på 25.000 kroner årligt.
Mange om buddet
Ib Lysell Clasen oplever, at forsamlingshuset socialt set er et rigt og godt projekt, der tjener flere formål på én gang. Han forklarer, at stemningen henover vinteren derfor var lidt trykket, da deltagerne frygtede, at forsamlingshuset ville lukke permanent, hvis der ikke blev givet et kommunalt tilskud til en tovholderfunktion.
Det nyligt vedtagne tilskud på 25.000 kroner om året er derfor blevet modtaget med lettelse og vil blandt andet gå til en tovholder. Ud over tilskuddet får forsamlingshuset også en ny industriopvaskemaskine, fordi den gamle maskine er slidt op.
Ib Lysell Clasen fortæller, at det ikke kun er ældre borgere, der benytter tilbuddet.
- Blandt de besøgende i forsamlingshuset er også yngre mænd, der ikke selv laver mad, pensionister, som ikke laver mad hver dag, og endda også en familie med et par børn, der alle deltager i spisningen, siger Clasen.
På de populære hverdagsaftener bliver der serveret kage og kaffe, og hver anden tirsdag disker huset endvidere op med to spil banko. Deltagerne betaler selv for mad og drikke.
- Man får et godt måltid mad, har det lidt hyggeligt et par timer, og de ensomme kommer lidt ud og taler med andre.
Ja tak fra Engelhardt
Borgmester John Engelhardt (V) glæder sig over, at han sammen med forsamlingshuset og gruppeformand Flemming Ørhem (DF) kan se frugten af den tid, som parterne har lagt i at finde en økonomisk holdbar løsning for forsamlingshuset såvel som for kommunen.
- Problemet var, at forsamlingshuset var et dyrt kommunalt tilbud. Nu har vi fået skåret det til, så regnestykket passer, og de besøgende borgere også kan få glæde af deres stunder sammen fremover. Økonomien skal bare skrues rigtigt sammen, og der har vi som beslutningstager et ansvar, siger John Engelhardt.
Blandt andet ligger en del af besparelserne i, at kun én forvaltning og ikke to, som det var tilfældet førhen, er involveret i forsamlingshuset
Un cran au-dessus dans la mobilisation
Quelques minutes plus tôt, le secrétaire général de l'UMP, Jean François Copé, ne tenait pas d'autre langage : «A moins d'un an de la présidentielle, le moment est venu de monter encore d'un cran la mobilisation et de lancer toutes nos forces dans la bataille», a-t-il expliqué. Et faire la différence avec le Parti socialiste dont les deux principaux candidats à la candidature continuent de devancer Nicolas Sarkozy dans les sondages. «Le PS se déchire à l'occasion des ces primaires fratricides, explique Copé. Ils vont reprendre les alliances de circonstances et les manipulations de votes.» Face à cette gauche de «tristes marchandages et des grands renoncements», Copé veut opposer une UMP unie. «L'unité, c'est notre force et c'est la condition de notre victoire» au terme d'une campagne qu'il promet «profondément différente de celle de 2007» et «difficile».
Les leaders de la majorité se sont employés tout au long de la journée à afficher cette unité proclamée : le premier ministre a chaleureusement félicité le ministre de l'Intérieur Claude Guéant, qui «incarne l'action calme et juste de la République». Jean-François Copé et Francois Fillon ont fait assaut d'amabilités, le premier félicitant le second pour son «action remarquable» à la tête du gouvernement. Et le second qualifiant les propos du premier d'«excellents».
Greece has a sovereign debt problem. The bonds of the Greek government have
been downgraded by a major rating service. Their prices have fallen sharply
in the market. This means that the risk is high that the government will
default on its sovereign debt.
The interest rates that the Greek government must pay in order to borrow
have risen sharply. This is worsening the government's solvency and budget
problems.
The government faces default. The government's various spending cutbacks
haven't solved the problem.
They cannot solve the problem. It's apparently too late. The government
would have to restructure its debt by renegotiating with its multiple
lenders. That's a difficult and time-consuming process. It would have to
work out repayment while simultaneously altering government policies so that
the country's private market economy could expand. This involves knotty
political and economic issues that take years to resolve. The government
doesn't have this time.
The problem traces back to the earlier fact that for some years the
government was able to borrow heavily at low interest rates. This means that
it was able to sell its bonds at high prices. The problem arose because
these market prices were too high.
The sovereign debt of Greece became overvalued due to central bank/banking
system money inflation. This inflation, it should be strongly emphasized,
originated in the fiat dollar system of the United States and the Federal
Reserve.
The central banks of the world and the world money supply are heavily
influenced by what the Federal Reserve does through a kind of multiplier
effect, because foreign central banks respond to Fed inflation with
inflation of their own. Ronald I. McKinnon explained this important process
in his June 1982 article in the American Economic Review. We see it
happening today when foreign banks have to inflate in reaction to QE2 in
order to prevent their currencies from strengthening too much against the
depreciating dollar.
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