Senate of Romania

The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) interim director general Florian Coldea, on Monday stated, upon his exit from the meeting of the Joint Standing Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for the exercise of parliamentary control over the activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service, that he categorically rejects allegations that were made in recently against him and the SRI, w

The opposition National Liberal Party (PDL) and Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) groups in the Senate have merged, an announcement to this effect having been made when the group leaders presented the group leadership for the new ordinary session of the legislature at the plenary sitting of the upper house on Monday, in line with the Rules.

Romanian President-elect Klaus Iohannis will be sworn in as President on Sunday, Dec. 21, at 12 p.m., according to a decision made by the joint Standing Bureaus in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate on Tuesday.

Senator Mircea Geoana said on Friday his position of the Prime Minister's High Representative 'has ended'.

Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) leader, on Tuesday announced that he would have a meeting with Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, pointing out that his objective was 'to avoid any risk of Basescu's regime perpetuating through political heirs.'

The lawmakers of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, made up of the opposition National Liberals PNL and Democratic Liberals PDL) sent a letter to the Venice Commission relating a government executive order regarding the mayors, asking the Commission to voice a public position on this case, a release to AGERPRES says on Thursday.

The president of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR, a governing coalition partner) Hunor Kelemen told AGERPRES that in the talks he had with Prime Minister Victor Ponta at the Government's offices in the capital on Monday he had informed the cabinet head that the UDMR will name a culture minister after August 1.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said after the ruling coalition meeting on Monday that the parliamentarians of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) will vote for a political declaration by which the speakers of the two chambers of Parliament, at a joint sitting of the Romanian legislature on Wednesday, will ask President Traian Base

The leader of the Democratic Liberal Senators, Dumitru Oprea, on Wednesday asked the Senators attending the plenary session of the Chamber to vote on inviting President Basescu to participate in the ceremonies occasioned by the Senate's 150th anniversary.

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has handed out, on Thursday, the mandates proving their election as MEPs following the vote on May 25.