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PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea has continued his accusations against President Iohannis three days before the referendum and the EP elections. The SocDem leader accused the head of state of "dreaming" about changing the parliamentary majority…

Justice minister Tudorel Toader announced he will go to the Government to present his resignation to the premier, and Dancila is going to take a decision. "I am going to the Government to give my resignation to the prime minister. She…

Amid the Romanian magistrates’ protest against the recent Government Emergency Ordinance (GEO 7) amending the justice laws, the General Prosecutor’s Office presented its activity report for last year in the presence of President Klaus…

The ‘Judges Forum in Romania’ association has sent a request to the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) whereby requests it to defend the independence of the justice system against the recent attacks from the legislative power and from the…

The public television (TVR) chief, Doina Gradea on Friday retorted in the scandal stirred following journalist Dragos Patraru’ recordings revealing Gradea’s offending journalists from the news department. Doina Gradea accused that some…

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu has told a TV show on Wednesday evening that the Netherlands ambassador to Romania (e.n. the former ambassador) has attempted to convince him regarding what has to be done in the judiciary system.…

Former minister of Justice Titus Corlatean has told hearings within SIPA committee in Parliament on Wednesday that the former American and Dutch ambassadors had put pressure on the authorities in 2012 to name Laura Codruta Kovesi in ‘a top…

Authorities have paid no ransom for the release of the Romanian engineer who had been kidnapped in Nigeria on Monday, says the regional Police. The success and the immediate release of the Romanian citizen and of his colleagues would owe…

The National Union of Judges of Romania (UNJR) has asked publicly on Monday the DNA chief prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kovesi (photo) and the opinion leaders to cease pressures on the Constitutional Court before the ruling on the…

Political pressure to drop cases touched a new peak last year as investigations reached the highest levels of politics, Romania's corruption-fighting agency’s chief Laura Kovesi told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "If anything,…