controversies

After a part of the mainstream media reported that a working group set up by the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), which was joined by the Government, together with the the media watchdog and several NGOs, is preparing an IT…

Justice Ministry has released on Tuesday the draft law to disband the Special Section for Investigating Magistrates. However its provisions stirred more controversy, with USR challenging the proposals, arguing they provide the Prosecutor…

Former head of the Romanian Gendarmerie (Romania's Riot Police), Sebastian Cucoş, has been appointed as first deputy general inspector of the same institution, the Interior Ministry has announced on Thursday. The rook at the helm of the…

The first lung transplant in Romania has been made in the “St. Maria” hospital in Bucharest on Wednesday, a medical first in our country, amid controversies, coming one day after the row between former Health minister Vlad Voiculescu and…

Amid measles epidemic in Romania, authorities haven’t yet solved the vaccine crisis, with ruling party’s leaders arguing against one another on the vaccination. After Social Democrat chairman Liviu Dragnea said that he is reserved about…

Italian deputy, member of the M5S populist party, Luigi Di Maio, stirred harsh controversies after he stated that Italy has imported 40 percent of the Romanian “criminals”, while Romania has imported Italian companies. The Romanian…

The emergency ordinance 14 which is repealing the controversial EO 13 amending the criminal codes has been adopted in the Senate by unanimity of votes on Tuesday after the parliamentary majority had vetoed the Opposition’s requests that the…

New and old names are on the minister list that PSD-ALDE coalition is taking to Parliament for a confidence vote on Wednesday. Some are old party members, present in previous Social Democrat cabinets, others are young hopes of PSD or ALDE.…

After Social Democrat chairman Liviu Dragnea announced that the party’s nomination for the PM seat was Sevil Shhaideh (photo), the Romanian press began reporting on the controversies around her Syrian husband. PMP chairman, former…

The interim District 4 mayor in Bucharest stopped construction works for Colectiv monument in Lumea Copiilor park, also suspending the heads of the District 4 Park Direction after controversial facts regarding the monument’s location and…