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Romanian Opposition Challenges Constitutionality Of New Cabinet’s Instatement

16:10, 16 Feb. 2012
Romania's opposition Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party on Thursday filed a notice with the Constitutional Court, arguing that the Ungureanu Cabinet has been endorsed by the Parliament without following procedure.

Romanian Constitutional Court: Merging Local, Parliamentary Elections Might Affect Voting Process

13:52, 03 Feb. 2012
Merging local and parliamentary elections might affect the voting process and restrict the right to vote, considering the procedure’s complexity, the Romanian Constitutional Court said Friday.

Mircea Geoana’s Dismissal As Senate Chairman Ruled Constitutional

18:17, 20 Dec. 2011
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected the claims regarding the dismissal of Mircea Geoana from the position of Senate chairman and the appointment of Vasile Blaga in the respective position.

Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Geoana’s Dismissal As Senate Chairman

15:12, 07 Dec. 2011
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday postponed a ruling on the dismissal of Mircea Geoana from the position of Senate chairman.

Romanian Social Democrats Challenge At Constitutional Court Blaga’s Election As Senate Chairman

15:11, 07 Dec. 2011
The Romanian opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) challenged with the Constitutional Court the election of democrat liberal Vasile Blaga as Senate Chairman, senator Dan Sova said Wednesday.

Romanian Constitutional Court Upholds Law Freezing Public Wages, Pensions In 2012

14:49, 07 Dec. 2011
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld the law freezing public sector wages and pensions next year, which the opposition had contested.

Romanian Social Democrats To Challenge At Constitutional Court Blaga’s Election As Senate Chairman

19:11, 28 Nov. 2011
The Romanian opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) will challenge at the Constitutional Court the election of democrat liberal Vasile Blaga as Senate chairman, social democrat senator Titus Corlatean said Monday.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears New Police Officer Statute

15:14, 23 Iun. 2011
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the opposition MPs’ claim regarding the unconstitutionality of the amendments to the Statute of police officers.

Romanian Constitutional Court Upholds Govt Decree Regulating Maternity Leave, Child Rearing Benefits

12:00, 15 Iun. 2011
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a claim by opposition lawmakers that the Government emergency decree regulating maternity leave and child rearing benefits was unconstitutional.

Romanian 2008 Govt Ordinance On Car Pollution Tax Ruled Constitutional

14:59, 18 Mai 2011
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected as groundless the unconstitutionality claims targeting certain provisions of Government Emergency Ordinance 50/2008 on car pollution tax.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears New Labor Code

13:34, 23 Mart. 2011
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled the country’s new Labor Code is constitutional and rejected claims raised by the opposition.

Romanian Opposition Challenges Labor Code At Constitutional Court

11:46, 17 Mart. 2011
Romania’s opposition Social Liberal Union on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of the country’s new Labor Code, adopted Wednesday as the Government survived a vote of no-confidence in Parliament.

EC Report Notes Positive Effects Of Romania’s Amended Constitutional Court Law

14:33, 18 Feb. 2011
The European Commission’s interim report on Romania’s justice system, released Friday, noted improvements in speeding up trails by amending the law on the country’s Constitutional Court.

Romanian Constitutional Court Rules Magistrates Council Member Validation Illegal

13:20, 25 Ian. 2011
Romania’s Constitutional Court in Tuesday upheld complaints by democrat liberal senators on the validation of 11 members of the High Council of Magistrates, appointed for six-year terms.

Romanian President Calls On Magistrates Council To Hold Elections After Court Ruling

12:59, 05 Ian. 2011
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Wednesday called on the High Council of Magistrates to postpone electing a new president and vice-president until January 20, after the Constitutional Court rules over the validation of the council’s members.

Romanian Constitutional Court To Rule On Magistrates Council New Member List Jan 19

12:56, 03 Ian. 2011
The Romanian Constitutional Court will rule on a notification brought to the recently validated list of new High Council of Magistrates (CSM) members on January 19.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears Unitary Wage Law

13:43, 28 Dec. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled constitutional the unitary wage law for which the Government recently sought lawmakers’ confidence vote.

Romanian Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Education Law For Jan 4

13:40, 28 Dec. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court Tuesday postponed for January 4 a ruling on challenges brought to the recently adopted education law for which the Government sought lawmakers' confidence vote in October.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears Consumer Loan Law

13:33, 28 Dec. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected unconstitutionality claims raised by opposition liberals over the consumer loan law and cleared the bill the Parliament enacted last week.

Romanian Constitutional Court To Rule On Unitary Wage, Education Laws Tuesday

10:08, 28 Dec. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Tuesday will examine the notifications submitted by opposition parties, targeting the unitary wage law and the education law, for which the Government sought lawmakers’ confidence vote.

Romanian Opp Liberals Challenge 2011 State Budget Law At Constitutional Court

18:13, 23 Dec. 2010
Romanian opposition liberal deputies challenged the state budget for 2011 with the Constitutional Court.

Romanian Opp Social Democrats Challenge Unitary Wage Law At Constitutional Court

14:40, 23 Dec. 2010
The Romanian Social Democratic Party on Thursday challenged the unitary wage law at the Constitutional Court, after the opposition’s no-confidence motion over the normative act was rejected in Parliament.

Romanian Opp Social Democrats To Challenge 2011 Wage Law At Constitutional Court

13:18, 20 Dec. 2010
The Romanian opposition Social Democratic Party will challenge the wage law for 2011 at the Constitutional Court if the opposition’s no-confidence motion over the normative act is rejected by lawmakers, party leader Victor Ponta said Monday.

Romanian Senate Chairman Challenges Constitutionality Of Education Law

18:19, 15 Dec. 2010
Romanian Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana on Wednesday challenged the education law, arguing that its adoption through a vote of confidence in the Government was unconstitutional, but also contesting its content.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears Reexamined Pension Law

12:53, 15 Dec. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled the pension law reexamined and adopted by the Parliament at the president’s request is constitutional, rejecting opposition liberals’ claims.

Romanian Constitutional Court To Rule On Dec 15 On Liberals’ Challenge To Pension Law

11:09, 09 Dec. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court will discuss opposition liberals’ challenge to the recently adopted pension bill on December 15, the Court said Thursday.

Romania Constitutional Court Says Govt May Adopt Education Bill Through Confidence Vote

17:30, 24 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled the Government may adopt the country’s education bill through a confidence vote in Parliament, people close to the matter said.

Romania Constitutional Court To Rule On Govt-Parl Conflict On Dec 1

13:42, 18 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court is to decide on December 1 on the legal conflict between the Government and Parliament over the education bill, the Court said Thursday.

Parliament May Not Stop Education Bill Adoption Procedure – Romanian PM

13:10, 18 Nov. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday that the Parliament may not stop a current procedure and, if there was a supposed legal conflict on the education bill, it was resolved when the Government set the calendar for the vote of confidence on the bill.

Romanian Opp Lawmakers To Challenge Lower House Rule Change At Constitutional Court

16:03, 16 Nov. 2010
Romania’s opposition Social Democratic and Liberal parties will notify the Constitutional Court on the change in the Chamber of Deputies rulebook setting that quorum is no longer required for decisions made by the Chamber’s standing office.

Romanian Govt Notifies Constitutional Court About Legal Conflict Btw State Institutions

15:05, 15 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Government asked the Constitutional Court in a letter to take note of a legal conflict between the Executive and the Parliament, as the latter refused to debate the no-confidence motion filed by the opposition after the Executive sought lawmakers’ confidence vote on the education bill.

Romanian Govt’s Move To Adopt Education Bill Through Confidence Vote Groundless – Court

12:12, 12 Nov. 2010
The Romanian Government undermined the Parliament’s attributions as legislator by seeking to adopt the country’s education bill through a confidence vote, the Constitutional Court said Friday.

Romania Constitutional Court Rejects Draft Acts On Compensations For Fmr Political Prisoners

16:32, 21 Oct. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional several normative acts regarding moral compensations paid to former political prisoners during the communist regime.

Romanian Opp Leader Urges President Not To Pass Pension Bill Into Law

13:21, 06 Oct. 2010
Romania’s opposition Social Democratic Party leader Victor Ponta Wednesday called on President Traian Basescu not to promulgate the pension reform, which has been cleared by the Constitutional Court, threatening to call for his suspension otherwise.

Romanian Constitutional Court Clears Pension Bill

12:47, 06 Oct. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled constitutional the country’s unitary pension bill.

Romanian President Passes Bill Amending Constitutional Court Law

21:02, 27 Sept. 2010
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday signed the decree passing the bill amending Law 47/1992 on the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Civil Procedure Code.

Trials In Romania No Longer Suspended Over Exceptions Of Unconstitutionality – Court

16:13, 22 Sept. 2010
Trials in Romania will no longer be suspended by default when exceptions of unconstitutionality are raised, after the Constitutional Court upheld the amendments to Law 47/1992 on the functioning of the Constitutional Court, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Civil Procedure Code.

Romanian Constitutional Court Upholds Local Administration Layoffs

10:43, 22 Sept. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court rejected the Ombudsman’s notification regarding a Government emergency decree which amends the public finance Law, and upheld the Government's move to lay off local administration staff.

Romanian Opp Liberals To Challenge Pension Bill At Constitutional Court

15:06, 21 Sept. 2010
Romania’s opposition Liberal Party said Tuesday it will challenge the country’s pension bill at the Constitutional Court, after the Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposition to retake the vote on the bill, amid fraud allegations raised by the opposition.

Romanian Opposition To Challenge Pension Law At Constitutional Court

13:02, 16 Sept. 2010
Romania’s opposition Social Democratic Party is looking at ways to challenge the IMF-required pension law, adopted by lawmakers Wednesday, at the Constitutional Court, party leader Victor Ponta said Thursday.