Romania’s General Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi told a press conference on Monday in Targu Mures (central Romania) that implementing the new codes would be a problem this year not only for the Public Ministry, but also for the entire legal system. read more...

Higher Court of Justice rejected on Friday the appeals formulated both by Romanian businessman Dinu Patriciu and by the Romanian Intelligence Service, SRI, in the trial in which the businessman sued SRI for illegally tapping his phones. read more...

The report is factual, noting significant progresses made at most levels that the EC and the state seek together, both in the reform of the judiciary and the fight against corruption, Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos commented on the EC report on justice released on Friday. read more...

The European Commission’s interim report on Romania’s justice system, released Friday, noted improvements in speeding up trails by amending the law on the country’s Constitutional Court. read more...

Romania should focus on measures improving the celerity of high-level corruption trials and strengthening general anti-corruption policy until the European Commission's next assessment, according to the EC’s interim report on Romania’s progress under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. read more...

The European Commission's interim report on the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism says Romania's main challenge regarding judicial reform in the coming months "will be to prepare successfully for the entry into force of the four new codes." read more...

According to sources quoted by Evenimentul Zilei, President Traian Basescu met on Thursday night with deputy Central Bank governor Cristian Popa to propose the PM seat. The information is aired, on sources, by news televisions also. read more...

After a meeting with President Basescu, Democratic Liberals show signs that they are ready to accept an independent Prime Minister. HotNews.ro sources claim that on Tuesday night, at a meeting with Basescu local party organization leaders voted in favor of an independent Prime Minister for the beginning of March. read more...

Higher Court of Justice magistrates rejected on Wednesday the appeals of 15 customs and police officers from Moravita customs against the preventive arrest decision issued by Bucharest Appellate Court, news agency Agerpres reports. read more...

Social Democrats threaten to submit a motion of censure after the Hungarian Democrats congress The Social Liberal Union, comprising the Liberals, Social Democrats and Conservatives plan to submit a motion of censure after the Hungarian Democrats congress scheduled for the end of February or after the congress of the Democratic Liberal Party, Social Democratic Vice President Constantin Nita told RFI. read more...

Romanian PM Emil Boc said after talks with his party's MPs and with President Traian Basescu on Tuesday evening that his replacement with an independent prime minister has not been discussed directly. He said he as a prime minister was working with the same intensity as on the first day in office and would do so to the end of his term. read more...

A former customs worker at the southern Romanian Giurgiu crossing point said Sed Lex union leader Vasile Marica took bribes from customs employees to have them promoted or kept in their jobs. read more...

Romanian President Traian Basescu visited the National Central Bank (BNR) headquarters on Monday afternoon in an attempt to convince BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu accept the seat of prime minister, according to sources close to the Presidency. They said the president arrived at the BNR HQ at about 4 p.m. read more...

European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding commented in a talk show for RFI and TV5 Monde the recent arrests at Romania’s customs saying that investigations which ended with the arrest of tens of customs and police officers prove that justice is starting to work in Romania. read more...

About 1,000 Romanians protested Monday in the Victoriei Square in capital Bucharest against the sale and consumption of psychedelic plants. read more...

Romania's Government opposes the introduction of civil unions, which can provide legal recognition for domestic partnerships, including same-sex unions, arguing that the only form of domestic relationship allowed under the Civil Code is marriage between two people of different genders. read more...

Romania's population decreased by 6,979 people on the month in December 2010, according to data released Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INS). read more...

Romania's Black Sea ports around the city of Constanta were closed Saturday and barge traffic on the Danube-Sea Canal, through the Agigea lock to Constanta Sud-river port, has been restricted, because of strong winds. read more...

An American cablegate from the US Embassy to Bucharest, released by Wikileaks via Spanish daily El Pais reveals that in 2008 the American company Boeing accused European producer Airbus for being ready to bribe Romanian governmental officials to obtain a contract to renew Tarom’s airplanes. read more...

Fifteen border police and customs workers at a border crossing point in southwestern Romania on Wednesday have been detained for 24 hours by anticorruption prosecutors. read more...