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The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has unanimously rejected the draft bill on amnesty and pardon on Tuesday. The lower chamber of the Parliament is convened in an extraordinary session during August 26-28. PSD and ALDE has…

The leader of the Liberal deputies, Raluca Turcan, has announced on Tuesday that 118 PNL, USR, PMP and Pro Romania deputies had filed a request for an extraordinary session to be convened at the Chamber of Deputies, to discuss controversial…

The Constitutional Court has rejected on Thursday both legislative initiatives to review the Constitution, filed by the Opposition (PNL-USR) and by the PSD-ALDE ruling coalition. The CCR unanimously decided that amnesty and pardon for…

President Klaus Iohannis has signed the decree promulgating the Public Pensions Law, says a Presidency press release on Monday. The law has been adopted at the last minute by the Chamber of Deputies in the last week of the parliamentary…

The Chamber of Deputies has voted on Wednesday the draft bill on the Diaspora vote for the presidential election, extending it to three days. The law also provides for the vote in Romania and the Diaspora to be extended until 24.00h, if…

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mugur Isărescu, was unanimously endorsed on Tuesday for a new term in office, at the BNR helm, by the Budget Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The proposed members for the…

The Constitutional Court has validated, on Thursday, the results of the referendum on May 26, CCR officials said. The sources say the five challenges regarding the procedures on organizing and conducting the referendum were rejected,…

The Chamber of Deputies (Romanian Parliament’s lower chamber) has passed on Wednesday another controversial law, the public pension laws, which had been re-examined after the Constitutional Court had declared it unconstitutional. The law…

Former presidential adviser George Scutaru and former vice-president of the Chamber of Speaker, Dan Motreanu,former members of the National Liberal Party, have been acquitted in the file where they had been charged with bribery to finance…

Ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) has scored their first victory after losing EP elections and following Liviu Dragnea’s conviction to prison, succeeding to preserve their majority in the Chamber of Deputies (Romanian Parliament's lower…