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Renate Weber is to the Ombudsman what Valer Dorneanu is to the Constitutional Court: a political representative, heavily anchored in the past, who, instead of reforming the institution they are in charge of, has turned it into a tool they use as...

As if there were a higher power that gives meaning and an endgame to elections, some political analysts and journalists are proposing the arguable idea that Sunday was meant to settle the ratios between parties, by consolidating the power of the...

The pandemic did not cause the vote attendance to drop. On the contrary, it has remained comparable to what has happened in the local elections of 2008 and 2016. Voter turnout is a good indicator of the politicization of the electoral campaign,...

Apparently, Viorica Dăncilă changed her mind on expelling Paul Stănescu, the leader of one of the most powerful county organizations of the Social democrats: "I consider all my colleagues act on good faith. They will prove that they were...

Some people mistake direct democracy with "the popular democracy regime" of communism. No, it is called direct democracy, because the decision is not mediated by representatives.

The survival of empires, and even that of countries that do not harbor such ambitions, depends on the existence of at least two fundamental conditions: a functional economy, that ensures its citizens' prosperity, and social cohesion. The...

The insolvency of the state's territorial-administrative entities was regulated in 2012, through an emergency ordinance, but the legislation in the sector does not get applied, said Diana Deleanu, lawyer and insolvency practitioner with...

The Court of Bucharest recently ruled that the former president of Bancorex, Răzvan Temeşan (ex lege the current employee on the equivalent position of CEO of BCR, according to the ruling no. 51 of the High Court of Cassation and Justice), must...

The absence of the draft of the Fiscal Code continues to keep the interest of the public opinion high.

Citizens who woke up at 3 a.m, in the first days of 2013, to pay their taxes ahead of time so they could receive a discount, may have the surprise to see that they have nevertheless paid more than they should have.

Traian Băsescu is now keeping silent. His silence is deafening; it is as silent around him as if he were in the dark, at the bottom of the ocean.

Counting the versions which result from the possible decision of the Constitutional Court is, in my opinion, pointless, because we are in the midst of a full moral hazard, where we are constantly redefining not only the notions, but the rules as...

Fifty percent, plus one.

The problem of compensating those whose assets were seized by the communist regime is far from solved, and lawyers and their clients are at the end of their wits. The state's shares in the Proprietatea Fund have been exhausted, and the law...

The National Authority for the Restitution of Properties (ANRP), the institution which manages the compensation process and issues conversion deeds at the Proprietatea Fund, is being targeted by the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption...

• 5.54% of households have mandatory insurance policies concluded 

• (Interview with Crinuţa Nicoleta Dumitrean, the chairman of the National Authority for the Restitution of Properties) 

• Foreign analysts predict a depreciation of the leu 

• Lowering the number of communes by merging them - a possible solution for balancing the local budget, proposed in a draft law for intended to balance the local budgets, proposed in a legislative draft bill for the territorial office 

The government said that it no longer wants to compensate former owners whose properties were confiscated before "89, by paying them cash, instead wanting to offer them shares in the Proprietatea Fund, over the next two years, according to an...

The hike of the flat tax rate is the last and worst solution for plugging the budget deficit, and the Romanian government and the IMF officials are all aware of it, just as they perform the quarterly evaluation process for the release of the...

• The crisis has caused a 26% drop in the trade between Romania and Spain 

The Ministry of Development will no longer accept dumping prices in bids for public construction projects. Elena Udrea, the Minister of Development, yesterday said in a seminar focused on the construction market, that in many cases, after signing...

• The prices are too low for Bucharest and too high for smaller cities 

"Visa Europe" has allocated over one million Euros for the campaign to encourage card payments in Romania.

• Transactions with bonds and treasury certificates have exceeded 1 billion lei 

Romania"s political crisis is having indirect effects, by causing a rise in the cost of foreign financing, as foreign investors are becoming increasingly risk adverse.

• Mayoralties are no longer functional due to lack of funds  

In a survey ordered by the "Pro Democraţia" Association (APD), over 60% of the respondents sampled all over Romania by the Social Research and Branding Company (CCSB) said they were worried about ballot fraud in this autumn"s...

• The prefect of Bucharest: "Construction workers are dying at a faster rate than American soldiers in Iraq"  

The president of the Senate, the leader of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), Mircea Geoană, claims that the fate of Romania"s economic recovery hangs in the balance these days, and he said that the worsening of the Romania"s economic...

The Government will cancel over 1.1 billion lei of debts oustanding of 35 thermal plants owned by several mayoralties, a process which is expected to tale at most three months to complete. The government is thereby willing to wipe the amounts...

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A.T.

Ovidiu Vrânceanu, Braşov

Alina Toma Vereha

Doru Mocanu,Iaşi