pressures

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,…