SOCIETY & PEOPLE

Augustin Lazar requests moral damages of RON 1 and that the Justice Ministry is compelled to post on its website a release with public apologies for the report on his managing activity, a court action submitted on Tuesday to the ...

Those eight Romanian high school pupils from Iasi who were in Sri Lanka during the deadly blasts have returned to Romania today, the Romanian Foreign Ministry announced. They are safe and sound. MAE said the pupils from the “Costache Negruzzi” ...

After a 18-year-old high school girl, studying at one of the most prestigious high school in Bucharest had died of meningitis last week, another two cases have been reported in other two counties in Romania. One in Botosani, northern country ...

The Arch of Triumph in Bucharest will host the event ‘The Night of Open Books’ Tuesday evening, with open gates to the public as of 19.00h. For the seventh year in a row, the readers have the opportunity to attend ...

The 5-judge panel with the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) has decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) three preliminary questions in regard to the trial of ‘Bute Gala’ ...

An earthquake shook the Buzau County, Vrancea region Tuesday morning, the National Institute of Research Development for Earth Physics (INCDFP) informs, adding that it took place at 9.01h. The quake had a magnitude of 3.5 on Richter scale and took ...

A huge cloud of Saharan dust is spreading across Europe, and in the next period it will also reach Romania. The cloud comes mainly from Algeria and has already covered major areas of Spain, Switzerland, southern Italy, Malta and the ...

Magistrates of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romania’s Supreme Court) have acquitted Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu in the file where he was charged with perjury. The ruling is final and it confirms the previous Supreme Court’s ruling ...

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has decided on Monday to extend the prosecution against Mircea Draghici, treasurer of the Social-Democratic Party (PSD) in regard to another offence of embezzlement. A DNA release reads that the prosecutors of the Section for ...

Daniel Horodniceanu, former chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has challenged on Monday the procedure of appointing the Prosecutor General by the Justice Minister to the Iasi Court of Appeals. Horodniceanu ran for the ...