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The subpoena of two prosecutors from the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) for hearings at Justice Crime Investigation Section (SIIJ) represents an additional reason for the dismantling of the SIIJ, Prime Minister-designate Ludovic Orban affirmed on Monday. "All the more reason to dismantle the Special Section.

A European Commission delegation, on a mission to Romania, on Tuesday met dismissed Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu, voicing praise for the procedure for selecting prosecutors to fill top and middle management positions at the Public Prosecution Service. "Catalin Predoiu, minister of justice, met a European Commission delegation on a mission to Romania on February 10-12, 2020.

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President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that the magistrate's institutional mission should in no way be hijacked, even though pressure on prosecutors has lately intensified, adding that the Romanian society is a powerful ally of a fair justice.

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors convened on Tuesday in a General Assembly meeting and decided to endorse the demarches to notify the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) regarding Government Emergency Ordinance (OUG) No.7/2019 and trigger a legal conflict of constitutional nature between the Government and the judicial authority.

Prosecutors with the Attorney General's Office on Monday decided to wear armbands in protest over the way the government passed an emergency ordinance amending the justice legislation.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila invites on Monday, at the Victoria Parliament, one representative of each magistrates' associations, as well as of the the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), in view of discussing the legislation in the justice area, a Government release informs.

President Klaus Iohannis received the report regarding the managerial activity at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ) and believes that Justice Minister Tudorel Toader's request to dismiss Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar from office is "completely inappropriate and likely to generate mistrust in the system and concern among Europ

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader announced on Wednesday that he would start the procedures for the removal from office of Attorney General Augustin Lazar.

He presented a report on Lazar's managerial activity.

The Prosecution Section of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) argues that statements by Interior Minister Carmen Dan regarding the case in which the heads of the Gendarmerie are being investigated are "statements that could harm the prestige of the judiciary in Romania."