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Ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) has come up with a new controversial idea, tabling a draft bill that compels Romanians to pay a special allowance to provide financial aid to their old parents, grandparents or great grandparents. The law…

The Chamber of Deputies (Romanian Parliament’s lower chamber) has adopted on Wednesday a draft law initiated by Social Democrat MP Florin Iordache that establishes a deadline of 15 days the most for which the Parliament’s resolutions can be…

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader has announced late on Tuesday that the Government has approved the emergency ordinance amending the justice laws, arguing the amendment proposals would have come upon the suggestion of the Superior Council of…

Social Democrat Party deputy Nicolae Bacalbaşa, known for his controversial stances, has launched an unprecedented attack against the European Union and against such countries as Germany or France on Monday, calling them „masters riding…

UDMR has recently launched a website about Transylvania containing controversial information about the „ethnic tensions” between Romanians and Magyars, suggesting that Transylvania was part of Hungary and that Transylvania’s union with…

The Senate has adopted the draft law amending the Criminal Code on Tuesday, by 74 votes to 28 and nine abstentions. The bill is to be also voted by the Chamber of Deputy, which is the decision-making body in this case. The special…

Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve has published an article about PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea and PM Viorica Dancila on Tuesday, on the precise day when Dragnea starts an official visit to Switzerland. The Swiss newspaper writes that Dragnea’s…

The special committee set up to amend the justice laws, the so-called Iordache law (by the name of the committee’s chairman Florin Iordache, former justice minister who initiated the controversial GEO 13 that stirred large mass protests in…

The rector of the University of Bucharest and former Education minister Mircea Dumitru has announced on Monday evening he is resigning from all positions held at the Romanian qualification watchdog, the National Council for the…

Despite controversies around some of them, the ministers proposed to be part of the Dancila Government have received the go-ahead of the special committees in Parliament on Monday. Some have continued to make controversial statements about…