POLITICS

PM Viorica Dăncilă has asked policy makers in Parliament on Wednesday to have a decent political language and to refrain from „actions that might hurt Romania’s image”, amid preparations for Romania to take over the Presidency of the EU Council ...

The votes on the 2019 draft budget and the pensions law have been postponed in Parliament on Wednesday over problems with the ruling majority in Parliament. The Government has officially invoked that in the case of the draft budget the ...

The Hungarian minority’s party, UDMR, has not yet decided to vote for or against the censure motion against the Government, claiming the reason is related to the opposition’s failure to propose a prime minister, ministers, governing programme. UDMR leader Kelemen ...

After the past weekend mayors of Timisoara – Nicolae Robu, Cluj-Napoca – Emil Boc, Arad – Gheorghe Falca and Oradea – Ilie Bolojan had signed the establishment of the Western Alliance, an initiative which targets to draw up funds from ...

The United States support the fight against corruption in Romania and back Romania’s path to Western values, Matthew Boyle, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said on Tuesday, during his first visit to Bucharest, after meeting Romanian officials. Boyse said during ...

The European Parliament has give its go-ahead on Tuesday for Romania and Bulgaria to join Schengen free zone, without being linked to the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism report. MEPs have approved the report by 514 votes to 107 and 38 ...

The Government will adopt an emergency ordinance to adopt the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code, amended by the special parliamentary committee led by ex-Justice minister Florin Iordache. The GEO will only refer to the articles declared constitutional, not ...

The Arad mayor, PNL’s Gheorghe Falca, has rejected the comments made by some social-democrat politicians, who said the Western Alliance could put at risk Romania’s territorial integrity. Falca says that in 2014, upon the proposal of the World Bank, an ...

The Opposition parties have resumed the offensive to dismiss Liviu Dragnea from the position of Chamber of Deputies speaker on Monday. The Opposition representatives are asking for Dragnea’s recall in the lower chamber’s Standing Bureau, otherwise they threaten with boycotting ...

Chairman of the ruling Social Democrat Party, Liviu Dragnea, is mentioned in a wide article published by Washington Post, entitled “The new autocrats“. The article is about the attempt of some leaders in such countries as Romania, Hungary, Poland or ...