Senate

President Klaus Iohannis says the best way to put an end to the current political scandal in Romania is the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and stands by his first option for a replacement.

The President closed a busy day in politics with an interview to the state television on Friday.

Senate Chairman Calin Popescu Tariceanu and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea, on Friday welcomed First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans.

National Liberal Party (PNL) Deputies' leader Ludovic Orban on Friday said that there is "no connection whatsoever" between the Liberals filing the censure motion and "what happens in the DNA [the National Anti-corruption Directorate] activity."

The Liberals have filed a motion to censure the Ponta Government on Friday, with the office of the Chamber of Deputies Speaker, Valeriu Zgonea, as well as with the office of the Senate Speaker, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

Chairman of Romania's Senate Calin Popescu Tariceanu, on Wednesday welcomed visiting Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, chairman of the lower house of Irish Parliament, Sean Barrett, on an official visit to Romania at the invitation of the Chamber of Deputies.

The Senate on Wednesday passed a legislative proposal concerning election to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and the operation of the Standing Electoral Authority (AEP) initiated by parliamentarians from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR), the Conservative Party (PC), the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Hungarian Democratic Union of Roma

Romanian lawmakers on Tuesday again rejected the detention request of prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Department, DNA, in the case of a former transport minister, Dan Sova.

There were 72 votes against the request and 66 in favour.

The upper chamber, the Senate, vetoed the same request on March 25 but a Constitutional Court ruling made it repeat the voting procedure.

President Barack Obama on June 2 signed into law landmark legislation ending the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, significantly reversing American policy by reining in the most controversial surveillance program since 9/11.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said June 2 that 110 jihadists who left French territory to fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had died in Iraq and Syria.

President Klaus Iohannis says that when it comes to the rule of law, it is increasingly difficult to work with the current Parliament and with the current majority.