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ADMISSION Romania's constitutional Court (CCR) on Wednesday partially admitted a government notification, which signaled a legal conflict of constitutional nature as the country's right-wing president Klaus Iohannis refused to appoint the interim ministers proposed by the Social-Democratic Prime Minister Viorica Dancila after their partner, ALDE, had left the ruling coalition last month. The court has also ruled that the president had to sign a decree on the resignation of Justice Minister Ana Birchall as part of a government reshuffle decided by the Social Democratic Party (PSD). According to the court, it is the Prime Minister's prerogatives to sack ministers and appoint interim substitutes but the president must sign the decrees in this respect. In another development, according to the court, Prime Minister Dancila must appear before Parliament for a confidence vote for the government team after ALDE's withdrawal from the ruling coalition, which altered the political structure of the Executive. Shortly after the Constitutional Court decision, Prime Minister Dancila said the president committed an abuse violating the Constitution with cynicism and carelessness causing a government crisis. Dancila went on to say that she would go to Parliament with a new list of ministers and would unflinchingly ask a confidence vote for the fresh cabinet. In turn, president Iohannis has said in a press release that he will make his decisions on applying the Constitutional Court ruling after the CCR motivation has been published.
COOPERATION The Romanian-Polish cooperation developed through a strategic partnership, which is strong, viable and future-oriented, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said in Bucharest on Wednesday in a joint statement with her Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki. The Romanian capital city hosted the second round of bilateral inter-governmental talks after the one in Warsaw, last year. The present round of talks took place against the background of celebrating a decade of strategic partnership, three decades of democracy and a century of diplomatic relations. The progress made in the cooperation between the two countries was being assessed, and new objectives were set during the talks. Several memorandums of understanding were signed for infrastructure, transport, energy, communication and digitization, entrepreneurship, the management of EU funds and cooperation between the police academies of the two countries. The Polish Prime Minister was also received by Romania's president Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday.
BILL A bill on the taxation of special pension benefits, introduced by the Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday after being approved by the budget committee on Tuesday. The document concerns a 30% tax rate of special pensions ranging between approx. 1,480 euro and 2,115 euro, and a 50% tax rate on pensions above this threshold.Senators also decided that country presidents' emoluments in excess of roughly 1,480 euro should be subject to taxation. The bill is going to be sent to the Chamber of Deputies, the decision making body in this respect.
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