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ArchiveIn four months, the Romanian government has to cut its spending by 1 billion Euros
The Romanian Prime-minister Emil Boc announced a 2% increment of the pension point and free of tax reinvested profit, starting October 1st. It has also announced it will drop the minimum tax, at least partially, starting January 1st. By the end of the year, the Government has to reduce budget...
More than two million Romanians won't vote on November 30
According to the current legal stipulations, the voters will be able to attend to the general elections only to the polling stations in which their domicile is according to the ID. In conclusion, the students, the ones without sojourn documents in other countries or the ones that work in other...
The salaries of professors go back to the Parliament
The leaders of the parties from the Opposition promise that they’ll do everything they can for that the professors to receive their wages increased with 50%, even retroactive, starting with October 1. There are taken into account two options: adopting of a motion, respective rejecting in...
War of those 1,3 billion lei allocated to the local authorities
Last month the government has allocated 1,3 billion lei from the budgetary reserve fund for current and capital expenditures, to over 2000 mayoralties. The mayoralties managed by PSD and liberals have received the largest sum of money, PDL accusing the Government that the budgetary allocation was...
CCR, an inconsequent arbiter in the fight between the state powers
During the current year, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has adopted 29 decisions related to the constitutionality of some laws and solved two juridical conflicts of constitutional nature.Of those eight notices hand in to CCR before the laws to be promulgated, just for the last three...
Romanian Democrat Liberals propose single-chamber Parliament
Romania's Democratic Liberal Party, or PDL, plans to revise the Constitution after general elections end-November to instate a single-chamber Parliament and reduce the number of lawmakers. Party president Emil Boc told a news conference Sunday he will propose Monday the start of a...
Romanian Senate Adopts Bill Reducing Flat Tax At 10%
Romania’s Senate adopted on Tuesday a draft law drawn up by ruling democrat liberals, which reduces the flat tax to 10%, from 16%. The result of the vote was 45 votes “for” 31 “against” and eight abstentions. Democrat liberals' proposition aims to amend an...
Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Pension Bill
The decision regarding a law reforming the country’s pension system has been postponed for next week by Romania’s Constitutional Court. The opposition Social Democratic and Liberal parties have called on the Constitutional Court to rule on the bill, which they claim was adopted...
The Pension Bill Will Not Go to the Vote Again
Romania’s Chamber of Deputies rejected today the Standing Bureau’s proposition to put the pension bill to the vote again, amid fraud allegations raised by the opposition. The vote was rejected with 158 votes for not repeating the procedure, 33 in favor and eight abstentions. The...
Romania’s Chamber of Deputies Adopts National Integrity Agency Bill
Romania’s Chamber of Deputies adopted on Monday the draft law on the National Integrity Agency (ANI), in spite of opposition social democrats refusal to participate in the procedings. The bill was adopted with 204 votes “for” two “against” and two abstentions....
Romania Should Reconsider Euro Adoption Calendar
According to Romanian President Traian Basescu, authorities should rethink the country’s euro adoption calendar, beacause Romania has not yet resolved its structural deficits problem. Basescu said that although Romania can meet eurozone entry criteria by 2014 (a deficit of maximum...
Romanian Social Democrats Will Submit a No-Confidence Motion to the Parliament on 17th of May
According to social democrat senator Lia Olguta Vasilescu, the social democrats have completed a noconfidence motion against Emil Boc’s Government, which they will submit to Parliament on May 17. The document criticizes the current state of the Romanian economy. The final version of the...
Ex EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban, Appointed Presidential Adviser
Romanian former EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban was appointed presidential adviser for European affairs, according to a press release from President Traian Basescu’s office. Ludovic Orban served as European Commissioner for Multilingualism between 2007, when Romania joined...
Romanian Conservative Party Has A New President
The Conservative Party Congress has elected a new president, Daniel Constantin, who competed with Petre Marginean in the internal elections held Sunday. Constantin got 975 votes, while Marginean secured 398 of the votes. The winner is a former EU counselor with the Agriculture Ministry and the...
Substantial Reduction of Social Security Contribution, Approved by the Lawmakers
One of the amendments to the social security budget for 2010 approved today by Romanian parliament commissions for labor and health states that employees’ and employers’ social security contributions will be reduced, although the draft budget stipulated they would remain at the last...
Romania’s Electoral Authority Final Null Vote Recount: 2,247 Valid Ballots
After reexamining and recounting all the voided ballots in Romania’s presidential election held last Sunday, the Central Electoral Bureau found 2,247 valid ballots amongst the 137.476 votes that were declare null. Therefore, 1,260 were in favor of the incumbent Traian Basescu and 987 for...
Romanian Social Democrats Claim Election Outcome Was Rigged
The Social Democratic Party, whose presidential candidate Mircea Geoana was leading in exit-polls after Sunday's presidential election, announced will contest the outcome at the Constitutional Court, claiming the election was rigged. Although Geoana was leading exit-polls Sunday evening,...
Presidential Election Results: Basescu - 50.33%, Geoana - 49.66%
The final preliminary results of the second round of the presidential elections in Romania were presented today by Central Electoral Bureau, after counts in all polling stations. According to these, the incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 50.33% of the votes and social democrat contender...
Presidential Election Final Results: Basescu – 32.44%, Geoana – 31.15%
Romania’s curent president, Traian Basescu, won the first round of the presidential elections held on Sunday. He obtained 32.44% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.15%, according to final results released Wednesday by the Central Electoral Bureau after the...
Romanian Referendum Prelim Results: 77.78% For Single-Chamber Parliament
At the Romanian referendum organized Sunday, 50.91% of the citizens eligible to vote came to express their opinion. 77.78% of the voters supported a single-chamber Parliament, and 88.4% supported downsizing the Parliament to a maximum 300 MPs, according to preliminary results released...
Romanian Presidential Election Prelim Results: Basescu - 32.42%, Geoana - 31.17%
After counting the votes from 99.92% of the poling stations, the Central Electoral Bureau announced, today, that Romania’s incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 32.42% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.17%. The third place was occupied by liberal...
250 MPs Voted Against Croitoru Government
Romania’s Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru lost a confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday for his proposed government. The result of the vote was 250 “against”, 189 “for”. The government needed 236 votes to be instated. As a result of this vote, Romania...
Proposed Transport Minister, Rejected by the Parliament Committees
Radu Berceanu, the proposed Transport and Communications Minister, was rejected by the Romanian Parliament committees 42 to 33 votes. Berceanu, a democrat liberal, is currently transport minister and interim agriculture minister in the country's outgoing government which lost a...
Romania has three executives but not a functional government
It’s been seven days since Romania decommissioned the government, and the current situation could drag on until after the presidential elections. The business environment warns about the dangers of this strategy and emphasizes the need for a functional Executive. Most people in the...
The Romanian Parliament removed the government from power
The Romanian government was unseated by the Parliament yesterday, but the current prime-minister can still perform his duties for 45 days, as an acting prime-minister. During this time he will only sign the necessary documents to administer present public affairs. In other words, until the new...
