Dana Piciu

Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans on 1 March will be meeting Speaker of Romania's Chamber of Deputies Liviu Dragnea and members of a select committee on justice legislation.

The censure motion initiated by the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Save Romania Union (USR), called "PSDragnea, during the campaign mother, at rule, plague," was rejected in the joint plenary sitting of Parliament, with 159 votes in favour, 3 against and 23 abstentions. To be adopted, the motion needed minimum 233 votes in favour.