26 October, 2017

The High Court of Cassation and Justice in Romania requests Parliament to send the bill on the amendment of the justice laws back to the competent ministry.

Newsroom, 26.10.2017, 13:37

Bill. Romania’s supreme court has asked Parliament to send
the bill on the amendment of the justice laws back to the relevant ministry.
Cristina Tarcea, the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, said
the bill did not benefit from transparency, cooperation and inter-institutional
dialogue and that it violated the legal provisions regulating the mechanism for
the drafting and adoption of legislation. She added this was the only solution
that would ensure realistic regulations, given that the status of magistrates
and the organisation and running of the courts of law and of the Superior Council
of Magistracy implies analyses and impact studies that have not been conducted
and which, under law, can only be done by the competent ministries.

Visit. The European
commissioner for the budget and human resources Günther Oettinger today travels
to Bucharest on an official visit to meet president Klaus Iohannis and prime
minister Mihai Tudose. Oettinger will also give a talk at a conference on the
10th anniversary of Romania’s joining the European Union held by the
European Commission’s Representation in Romania jointly with the National Bank,
and will meet citizens at the Academy of Economic Sciences. He will discuss
with the Romanian authorities the future of the European Union’s finances
within the new multi-annual financial framework that will be presented in May
next year.

Government. The government in Bucharest is to approve
today a draft emergency order on the creation of the National Centre for
Financial Information. The government is also expected to adopt a bill on
protection measures for crimes victims and to approve a memorandum on the
appointment of Harry Ilam Laufer, the minister for business, trade and
entrepreneurship, as president on Romania’s behalf in the mixed
Romanian-Georgian economic cooperation committee. The government is also to
approve a memorandum on ways to accelerate the absorption of European funds as
part of the 2014-2020 National Programme for Rural Development.

Republic of Moldova.
Romania’s positive experience in the fight against corruption is also important
for the Republic of Moldova, which has been analysing and partly implementing
the Romanian model in its efforts to combat corruption. This statement was made
on Wednesday evening in Strasbourg by the former Moldovan prime minister Iurie
Leanca, the co-president of the EU-Moldova parliamentary association committee
at the end of the first day of the committee’s 5th meeting. Today,
talks will focus on the change of the election system in the Republic of
Moldova and the granting of macro-financial assistance to this country. At the
beginning of the month, the authorities in Chisinau came under criticism from
the European Parliament, where a number of Euro MPs called for the suspension
of the macro-financial aid worth 100 million euros approved in July because of Moldova’s
lack of reform progress, the persistence of corruption and its deviations from
the democratic norms.

Tennis. The final
White Group matches at the WTA Finals in Singapore will be played today. World
no. 3 Karolina
Pliskova of the Czech Republic faces world no. 7 Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia,
while world no. 2 Garbine Muguruza of Spain plays world no. 5 Venus Williams of
the US. Pliskova has already secured a place in the semifinals, while Ostapenko
has no chances to qualify to the next round, having lost her first two matches.
In the Red Group, world no. 1 Simona Halep of Romania on Wednesday lost to
world no. 6 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, who has secured her place in the
semifinals. To qualify for the next round, Halep has to defeat world no. 4 Elina Svitolina of
Ukraine on Friday. In the final Red Group match, Wozniacki faces world no. 9 Caroline Garcia of France.