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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.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Rules Revised National Integrity Law Unconstitutional

17:11, 19 Iul. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court Monday ruled unconstitutional the revised version of the law regulating the activity of the country’s National Integrity Agency (ANI), after President Traian Basescu challenged the revised normative act’s constitutionality.

Romanian President Challenges Constitutionality Of Revised National Integrity Law

20:26, 13 Iul. 2010
Romanian President Traian Basescu challenged with the Constitutional Court the revised version of the law regulating the activity of the country’s National Integrity Agency (ANI), the Presidency said in a press release Tuesday.

Romanian Constitutional Court Dismisses Opposition Claim On Public Sector Wage Cuts

13:54, 07 Iul. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court Wednesday rejected the notification filed by opposition social democrats and liberals regarding the unconstitutionality of the austerity measure cutting state employees’ salaries by 25%.

Economic Crisis Justifies Postponing Payment Of Court-Won Wage Rights – Romanian Constitutional Court

16:26, 29 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court issued Tuesday the argument behind a previous ruling, which says that the current state of the country’s economy justifies the postponement of disbursing wage rights won in court by public sector employees.

Romanian Parl Legal Committee Purges Unconstitutional Provisions From Austerity Law Pack

20:27, 28 Iun. 2010
The joint committee for legal matters in Romania’s Parliament adopted Monday evening favorable reports on the austerity law package, eliminating the articles slashing or recalculating public pensions which were ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.

ING: Court Ruling To Plunge Romania Into Political Turmoil

23:37, 25 Iun. 2010
Romania is likely to face a period of political uncertainty after the Constitutional Court rejected part of the government’s austerity plans to slash public spending, putting downward pressure on the leu and increasing financing costs, an official at ING Romania said Friday.

IMF Could Halt Tranche If Romania Unable To Make Fiscal Adjustments – RBS

23:32, 25 Iun. 2010
Romania’s EUR13 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund could come to a halt unless the government is able to legislate fiscal adjustments in time for a new disbursement, RBS analyst Timothy Ash told MEDIAFAX Friday.

Romania Ctrl Bk: Tax Hikes Not Enough To Reduce Deficit

17:12, 25 Iun. 2010
Romanian economy may temporarily benefit from raised taxes, but such a measure will be insufficient to reduce the budget deficit to 6.8% of the gross domestic product, a central bank official said Friday.

Constitutional Court Ruling Blocks Implementation Of Govt Austerity Plan

13:18, 25 Iun. 2010
The Romanian Constitutional Court’s Friday ruling, rejecting certain articles of the austerity plan, leaves the Government unable to apply any of the measures provided by the bills, as they must return to Parliament to be made to agree with the Constitution.

Romanian Constitutional Court Rules Govt Austerity Plan Partially Unconstitutional – Sources

11:40, 25 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday that some of the austerity measures for which the Government received a confidence vote in Parliament are unconstitutional, people close to the matter said.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Austerity Plan Constitutionality Ruling For Friday

18:33, 24 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court judges will rule Friday on the five unconstitutionality appeals issued against the austerity laws for which the country’s Government recently sought the Parliament’s confidence vote.

Romania PM: Bills Slashing Public Spending Are Constitutional, Govt Awaits Court Ruling

11:50, 24 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Prime Minister Emil Boc on Thursday said the bills slashing public spending, for which the Government asked the lawmakers’ confidence vote, are constitutional and the Executive expects the Constitutional Court ruling on their constitutionality.

Romania’s Recently Adopted Austerity Plan Challenged With Constitutional Court

16:25, 16 Iun. 2010
Romanian Liberal Party Wednesday challenged with the Constitutional Court the Government’s two spending cut laws aimed to bring the country’s economy on track, in a move to prevent the enforcement of the drastic social measures they entail.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Rules Lustration Law Unconstitutional

17:16, 07 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court Monday ruled the country’s recently adopted lustration law is unconstitutional, after the normative act was challenged by several lawmakers.

Romanian Integrity Agency Mixes Up Probing, Judgment Powers – Constitutional Court

15:48, 22 Apr. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional Court believes the extent of the National Integrity Agency’s activity is wider than what should be permitted to an administrative body and the Agency mistakes investigative for judicial powers.

Romanian Govt Amends Law Regulating Constitutional Court’s Activity

10:10, 22 Apr. 2010
The draft law revising Romania’s Constitution stipulates that a minimum of 40 lawmakers is needed to notify the Constitutional Court, in the context in which the draft normative act proposes a single-chamber Parliament and a maximum of 300 MPs.

Independents Allowed To Run In Romanian By-Elections – Constitutional Court Ruling

18:07, 20 Apr. 2010
Independents are allowed to run for lawmaker seats, as per a Tuesday decision of Romania’s Constitutional Court, which admitted an exception to the Law regarding by-elections, raised by Green Party member Remus Cernea.

Romania Constitutional Court Strips Integrity Agency Of Its Main Attributions

10:16, 16 Apr. 2010
Romania’s National Integrity Agency, a EU-required institution, has been withdrawn its main attributions in screening public officials wealth and interest statements, following a Constitutional Court ruling.

Romanian Opp Party Threatens To Challenge Pension Bill Constitutionality Over Rejected Amendments

14:57, 15 Apr. 2010
Romania’s leftist Social Democratic Party, in opposition, is set to challenge the pension bill at the Constitutional Court if its proposed amendments are not accepted during debates in plenary session, social democrat senator Olguta Vasilescu said Thursday.

Romanian MEP’s Match-Fixing Trial Suspended, File Sent To Constitutional Court

15:16, 03 Mart. 2010
The Romanian High Court of Justice suspended Wednesday the trial in which FC Steaua Bucuresti owner Gigi Becali is indicted for bribery in a match-fixing case and will send the file to the Constitutional Court to settle an exception of unconstitutionality raised by one of the defense lawyers.

Romanian Social Democrats To Challenge Law Allowing Political Appointees At Decentralized Services

15:50, 02 Mart. 2010
Romania’s opposition Social Democratic Party will challenge the draft law on the Statute of Public Servants in the Constitutional Court, arguing the law allows political appointments at the helm of the country's decentralized state institutions, social democrat lawmaker Mircea Dusa said Tuesday.

Romanian Constitutional Court Says State Not Compelled To Compensate Pvt Emergency Medical Services

16:09, 28 Dec. 2009
The Romanian Constitutional Court ruled that the state cannot be compelled to cover the cost of emergency medical services provided by private operators, from public funds or the national health insurance fund.

Romania’s President Validated For New Term Within Formal Ceremony

10:50, 16 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Constitutional Court Wednesday validated Traian Basescu for a new term as president of the country during a formal ceremony.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Validates Basescu As President

19:26, 14 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Constitutional Court Monday validated Traian Basescu for a second term as the country’s president, as he got the largest number of votes in the presidential election runoff held on December 6.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Rejects Social Democrats’ Request To Annul Presidential Elections

19:19, 14 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Constitutional Court rejected Monday the request of the Social Democratic Party to annul the presidential election outcome, people close to the matter said.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Asks Recount Of Null Votes Be Made By Monday

17:44, 11 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Constitutional Court urged the Central Electoral Bureau to reexamine and recount null votes by Monday at 3 p.m.

Romanian Social Democrats Submit Evidence To Back Their Election Rigging Claim

16:31, 09 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Social Democratic Party sent to the Constitutional Court the evidence regarding alleged irregularities during presidential elections, people close to the matter said Wednesday.

Romanian Democrat Liberals Say There Is Zero Chance Election Will Be Cancelled

15:45, 09 Dec. 2009
Romanian democrat liberals consider there is zero chance the Constitutional Court will decide to cancel the election that brought incumbent President Traian Basescu a new five-year term and dismiss social democrats’ rigging claims as desperate, party vice-president Adriean Videanu said Wednesday.

Romanian Social Democrats Submit Election Runoff Annulment Request To Constitutional Court

15:09, 08 Dec. 2009
The Romanian Social Democratic Party submitted Tuesday to the Constitutional Court their request to annul and repeat the presidential elections runoff.

Romanian Social Democrats To Challenge Presidential Election Outcome – Geoana

20:16, 07 Dec. 2009
Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana, who was defeated in the presidential race, said Monday the party decided to challenge the election outcome at the Constitutional Court and the Central Electoral Bureau, claiming the election was rigged.

Romanian Social Democrats To Contest Election Outcome Claiming Vote Was Rigged

14:48, 07 Dec. 2009
Romania's leftist Social Democratic Party, whose presidential candidate Mircea Geoana was leading in exit-polls after Sunday's election, said will contest the election outcome at the Constitutional Court, claiming the election was rigged.

Romania’s Parliament Reform Referendum Validated – President

22:03, 22 Nov. 2009
Romania’s President Traian Basescu said Sunday, after the results of exit-polls that show him leading in the first round of presidential elections, that the referendum for a single-chamber parliament downsized to 300 lawmakers was validated, as over 50% of Romanians cast votes at the referendum.

Romanian Independent Candidate Potarca Notifies OSCE On His Contestation To Election Law

13:36, 22 Nov. 2009
Romanian independent candidate Ninel Potarca voted on Sunday, despite the Constitutional Court not answering his contestation of the elections, and announced he has notified the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and will address the European Court of Human Rights.

Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Rulings On Controversial Laws Until After Elections

16:29, 28 Oct. 2009
Romanian Constitutional Court postponed Wednesday until after presidential elections rulings on the legitimacy of three laws the government enacted after gaining a confidence vote in Parliament mid-September.