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The Social-Democrats claim that early parliamentary elections forebode austerity and blame the Liberals of deliberately "triggering a political crisis" and "now dodging governing and attempting to pass the blame." "They have deliberately triggered the political crisis, they have repeatedly violated both the laws of the country and all the recommendations of international bodies, they have taken

The workforce crisis, the rise of inflation, the prospects for the national currency's depreciation and the expansion of the financial gridlock are seen as the major challenges to the business environment in 2020, found the 9th "Barometer on the state of the economy" conducted by consulting company Frames and released on Friday.

The government adopted at its Friday evening meeting the Justice Ministry's memorandum proposing the abolition of the Section for the Investigation of Criminal Offences in the Judiciary (SIIJ). The adoption of the memorandum does not mean that the government dismantles the SIIJ, but only that it assumes as an official stance Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu's proposition.