Dan Voiculescu

Romania's Prime Minister, Florin Citu, on Wednesday dismissed Vlad Voiculescu as Minister of Health after a series of blunders that included the deaths of three COVID-19 patients after ventilators failed at a Bucharest mobile ICU.

"I have handed President Klaus Iohannis the necessary documents to revoke Vlad Voiculescu from his post as Minister of Health," Citu said in a statement.

Minister of Health Vlad Voiculescu declared on Monday that the "direct" author of the last 30 years' "disaster" in the Romanian health system is the Social Democratic Party (PSD). "The direct authors of the last 30 years' disaster in the Romanian health system is PSD and the PSD mafia.

The co-chair of the Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity Alliance (USR-PLUS Alliance) Vlad Voiculescu said on Monday that the alliance would not be part of a government "in which a few faces will be swapped", but would be part of "a real change". "At the governmental level, things cannot continue as they have until now.

Romania's prime minister Viorica Dancila sent a letter to European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker asking him for clarifications on an alleged interference by the EC in the justice process in Romania.

European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu on Friday called on Romania's Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu to speed up the completion of documents for the construction of three regional hospitals in Romania.

Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Wednesday defended the decision to evict the influential private TV company Antena Group from its premises as legal and said it had nothing to do with attempts to stop it broadcasting.

Romania's Justice Minister, Raluca Pruna, on Thursday said the country will scrap the article that cuts convicts' jail sentences by 30 days for every "scientific work" that they publish.

The move is aimed at putting an end to the sudden and unexpected literary boom in the country's prisons.

A group of 15 Romanian senators has initiated a bill aimed at amending the controversial law that allows prisoners who publish books to have their jail terms cut.

"Many politicians, businessmen and ex-football players only discovered their literary skills after they were jailed for corruption and have benefited from loopholes in the law ... this must end," MP Valeriu Todirascu said.

The Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on Wednesday took note of the request for retirement filed by Florica Duta, one of the Bucharest Court of Appeal judges in the case regarding the privatisation of the Food Research Institute (ICA), in which Dan Voiculescu is a defendant.

The head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi says that she won't be intimidated by any politicians' declaration, and she does merely wishes to do her job, not to be 'loved or praised' by politicians.