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The Parliament has passed today a bill on the taxation of all special pensions by up to 85%, with the draft being endorsed by all parliamentary parties, but mostly following an agreement sealed between PSD and PNL. There has been an…

The Constitutional Court has released the reasoning of its previous ruling on declaring the special pensions repeal as unconstitutional, arguing that the pensions "do not represent a privilege", warning the Parliament that any other…

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…

After the Chamber of Deputies passed the draft law repealing special pensions on Tuesday, magistrates requested an audience with President Iohannis to talk about this issue. The Presidential Administration announced that the head of…

The Chamber of Deputies, Romania's Parliament lower chamber has passed the draft law repealing special pensions by 247 votes, none against and 21 abstentions. The bill provides for the repeal of special state pensions, except for the…

Registrars will block the courts' activity countrywide today, starting 10 a.m., when the Parliament's plenary session is scheduled to start to vote the draft law that proposes the removal of the special pensions, including for magistrates.…

The Parliament convenes today in three successive plenary sessions so that the Government should take responsibility on three topics, to amend the justice laws, to repeal GEO and on the budget ceiling law. The Orban Cabinet will though…

The Head of PM's Chancellery, Ionel Danca, has announced that the Government had adopted in its Tuesday sitting the three draft laws for which it is to take responsibility in Parliament, namely the amendment of the justice laws, of thee GEO…

The National Liberal Party (PNL) has decided to cancel special pensions, except for the ones given to the magistrates and military, deputy PM Raluca Turcan announced on Monday, arguing that the removal of "a crass inequity" is desired.…

Seven members of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), including vice-president Nicole  Solomon have boycotted the past two sittings, publicly asking for the delays of all debates on the special department for the investigation of…