Senate

The High Court of Cassation and Justice, also known as the Romanian Supreme Court, has decided on Thursday to challenge the laws regarding special pensions to the Constitutional Court. The High Court of Cassation and Justice will notify…

The senators voted the law on special pensions. There were 91 votes in favor and 19 against. This is the second time that senators have voted on this law. The bill is anyway being debated today in the Chamber of Deputies, which is the…

The teachers are not giving in and continue the general strike on Tuesday, with the education unions demanding "a credible solution" to their wage demands. They require that a starting teacher have a salary of 4,000 lei, and a teacher at…

On Wednesday, the senators adopted, with 67 votes for and 37 against, the amendments to ordinance 16/2022 by which the tax scale for residential buildings owned by individuals was increased by up to 50%. The vote in the Senate takes place…

The Senate adopted, on Wednesday, the increase in the allowances of dignitaries and the increase of the increments by 25% for civil servants involved in the legislative process. Among the allowances that could be increased are those of…

Florin Cîţu on Wednesday filed his resignation from the Senate leadership, after the group of PNL senators informed him that he was withdrawing his political support for this position. Alina Gorghiu will take over the interim position.…

The Senate's plenary session has adopted on Wednesday the legislative proposal for the amendment of the Offshore Law, which regulates the oil operations of exploration, development, exploitation of oil fields both in offshore and deep…

On Tuesday, prosecutor Bogdan Licu and the senator Iulia Scântei were appointed judges at the Constitutional Court by the Chamber of Deputies, respectively by the Senate. The two are appointed for a 9-year term. President Klaus Iohannis…

The speaker of the Romanian Senate, Florin Cîțu, went on Wednesday to see the horrors of Gostomel and Irpin, during his visit to Ukraine. He features in photos with Volodymyr Zelensky and Ruslan Stefanciuk, the chairman of the Verkhovna…

The Speakers of the Romanian parliament chambers, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Florin Citu and Marcel Ciolacu announced they would go to Kyiv at the end of this month, most probably on April 27. "We are going to Kyiv, I don't…