Georgiana Tanasescu

Prosecutor Felix Banila says he has confidence in President Klaus Iohannis' ability to make a decision in full knowledge of the facts with regard to his appointment as head of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

Most Romanians are interested in discerning between fake and true news online, says Raluca Radu, PhD, manager of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the University of Bucharest, coordinator of the European Media Monitor in Romania and rapporteur for Romania of the Digital News Report (DNR) 2018.

President of the Senate Calin Popescu-Tariceanu met on Friday with the Lord Fowler, who is currently the Speaker of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Parliament, occasion on which he underscored the special importance that Romania grants to the Strategic Partnership with the UK.

The leader of the National Liberal party (PNL) Ludovic Orban is calling for the resignation of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu as chairman of the Senate, claiming that Tariceanu has seriously damaged Romania by its positions against European institutions.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader told AGERPRES on Thursday, in connection with the proposal of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) to change the procedure for the appointment and dismissal of chief prosecutors, that the Justice laws have already been adopted.

"The laws have already been adopted!," Minister Tudorel Toader said.

Minister Mihai Fifor evoked, on the first day of the NATO Defense Ministers' meeting in Brussels, the importance of fully implementing the decisions made within the alliance, referring in particular to the need for a coherent approach , at strategic level, of the forward presence on the entire eastern flank, including in the Black Sea region, from the perspective of planning, training,

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, on an official visit to Portugal, affirmed in the context of the signing of a memorandum between "Horia Hulubei" Institute and Champalimaud Foundation, that the expansion of the Romania-Portuguese partnership on research enjoys the full support of the Government.

Anti-corruption prosecutors are voicing their concern that the prosecutors' independence status might be affected.

The reaction of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) comes in the context of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) concerning the obligation of Romania's President to issue an order removing from office the head of DNA.

President Klaus Iohannis welcomed Prince Charles, on Wednesday, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, with whom he discussed the Romanian-British strategic partnership, based on the enhanced cooperation in the economic and security sectors, a press release of the Presidential Administration sent to AGERPRES informs.

Considering the decision of Romania's Constitutional Court in the case of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) head Laura Codruta Kovesi, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis should proceed to revoking the chief-prosecutor from office, as requested by the Justice Minister, Tudorel Toader, on Wednesday said the Senate's President, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.