Valeriu Zgonea

Former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea was convicted on Monday by the Bucharest Tribunal to three years imprisonment for the crime of influence peddling, in a case in which he stood accused by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) of intervening to appoint the daughter of a local social-democrat councilor in Buzau to an important public position.

President Klaus Iohannis sent the National Defence Strategy to the Parliament on Friday, the Presidential Administration informed.

The two Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, Valeriu Zgonea and Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, respectively, assert in a letter to the foreign ambassadors accredited to Bucharest that the current Opposition is attempting to push "the overthrowing of a legitimate government" by using the judiciary as "a tool" to take over power.

The citizens' confidence in the state institutions should start from concrete measures for more transparent and open data, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Tuesday in his message to the conference 'Transparency and Open Data - Anticorruption and Security' organized by the "Ovidiu Sincai" Social Democratic Institute (ISD), in a partnership with the General Secretariat of th

Bulgaria's Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva and a delegation of MPs will pay an official visit to Romania on June 8-9, 2015.

On June 8 Tsacheva will meet with Valeriu Zgonea, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament, according to the press office of Bulgaria's government.

The meeting will also be attended by Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has 14 days to come up with a report on the General Prosecutor's request to open an investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Saturday.

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.

Romania's Chamber of Deputies and the Irish Parliament will sign a memorandum of understanding concerning, among other things, an exchange of expertise to prepare Romania for its 2019 presidency of the Council of the European Union, Romanian Speaker Valeriu Zgonea and Chairman of the Irish Parliament Sean Barrett told journalists at a joint news conference on Tuesday at Parliament Palace in Buc

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest that Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea informed him about the measures taken to clean up after recent floods in northern Romania, assuring that the Government will summon up all the necessary resources for repairing and for containing damage to less than so far.