SOCIETY & PEOPLE

The constructor of Lot 3 of the A1 Sibiu – Orastie motorway, a section closed to traffic following the crumbling of a part of the motorway shortly after the inauguration and which was later rebuilt from scratch, would have to ...

Romania was sentenced on Thursday, by the European Union Court of Justice, for failing to fulfill the directive regarding the landfills, according to which the authorities should have closed down 68 non-complying landfills until July 16, 2009. The ruling comes ...

The Ombudsman has announced that he has delegated the authority to one of his deputies, however the power to notify the Constitutional Court is excepted. The exception is reportedly confirmed by one of the CCR decisions which reads that ‘the ...

The first cases of African swine fever have been tracked down in Teleorman county, Liviu Dragnea’s fief. Mass media reported that two pigs, confirmed with the African swine fever virus, have been found dead in a forest, on Dragnea family’s ...

Former National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) head, Sorin Blejnar, was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison, in a file in which he is charged with RON 12,513,894 bribe taking. The decision may be subject to appeal. The ...

A 52-year old woman and her 58-year old husband in Plaietu, Maneciu commune, Prahova County, have been attacked by a bear in their household, ISU Prahova representatives inform. The woman was transported to the hospital with multiple excoriations on the ...

More and more counties in Romania are facing the drug consumption among youngsters. For instance, one in ten high school students in Constanta (southeastern Romania) has tried at least one drug, with the most consumed one being cannabis. Being also ...

Former Tourism Minister Elena Udrea and former DIICOT chief, Alina Bica, have been imprisoned in the El Buen Pastor penitentiary, named since 2017 Vilma Curling Rivera, Costa Rican newspaper diarioextra.com reports. The report reads that the two women spent lots ...

Prosecutor General, Augustin Lazar (photo), has sent on Wednesday, to the Ombudsman, the request to refer the Emergency Ordinance on the laws of justice to the Constitutional Court. The request is reasoned by the unconstitutionality of article VII of the ...

The prosecutors section within the Superior Council of Magistracy has unanimously decided to recommend that the provisions of the emergency ordinance on the justice laws is enforced for the future, CSM vice-president Codrut Olaru said. He added that, in the ...