09.16.2013

Thirty Romanian lawmakers have challenged a recently adopted bill on stray dogs at the Constitutional Court. more

09.10.2013

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies Tuesday approved a bill allowing for stray dogs to be euthanized if they are not adopted in 14 days after being sent to pounds. more

08.28.2013

The Romanian government said Tuesday it approved the bill regulating mining in the Rosia Montana area and the draft act would be sent to the Parliament for adoption. more

06.04.2013

Romania’s Government will simplify expropriation procedures in view of public utility works, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Tuesday, adding expropriation issues have prevented authorities from more

05.15.2013

Over 10,000 employees in state companies and institutions will be laid off by 2018, according to a government estimate. more

05.10.2013

Romania’s Constitutiaonl Court on Friday rejected the opposition Democratic Liberal Party’s claim of unconstitutionality on the recently adopted property restitution bill, people close to the more

04.23.2013

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday signed into law the bill setting up the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF), the president’s office said in a statement. more

03.21.2013

Romania’s government has approved a decision introducing co-payment in the public healthcare system and patients will pay a one-off fee between 5 lei (EUR1.14) and RON10 upon hospital discharge, more

09.10.2012

Romanians spent about EUR13 billion on loan installments, fuel, alcohol, cell phone bill and cigarettes, about half or 46% of the total net wages and pensions collected in 2011. The rest of it went to more

08.09.2012

Charging healthcare contributions as a share of the national average wage for employees earning less will encourage illicit labor, layoffs and restrict the hiring of young graduates, especially in the more

07.26.2012

Romania's Finance Ministry wants to introduce certain spending restrictions to take effect automatically when the net public debt goes over 35%, 40%, or 45% of the GDP, said state secretary Liviu more

07.04.2012

Romania’s healthcare reform bill sets the new contributions to the mandatory health insurance fund at 5.5% for the insured, 5.2% for the employers and at 5.5% for the insured whose contribution is more

07.03.2012

In vitro fertilization, plastic surgery after the age of 18, medical assistance at the workplace and certain recuperation and physiotherapy procedures will not be paid for from the national mandatory more

06.27.2012

Employees may start strikes only with at least 48 hours' notice to the employer and only with the consent of at least half of the total number of union members, says a draft emergency ordinance put up more

06.21.2012

Romania’s Senate on Thursday adopted an amendment to the referendum law allowing the suspension from office of the head of state with the votes of the majority of people casting ballots in a more

06.19.2012

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday adopted a bill whereby the decisions adopted by the legislature may not be contested with the Constitutional Court. more

06.14.2012

Romanian GPs with over 70% of their prescriptions in electronic form will receive a bonus of 100 lei (EUR22) every month in 2012, starting with July, and an extra RON5 for each issued health card, more

05.30.2012

A bill put forward to the Romanian Senate says employers who hire young people under 25 for at least three years would pay only 50% of their social contributions. more

03.30.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu on Friday requested the country’s new healthcare bill be put up for public debate by the end of April to be further discussed in Parliament this more

03.27.2012

Romania's Chamber of Deputies has tacitly adopted a bill whereby mayors and county council presidents must resign from the parties that got them elected, immediately after taking office. more

03.20.2012

The bill on electricity and the organization and operation of the energy market watchdog, ANRE, approved by the government at the end of last week and sent to the Parliament, includes some new things more

02.21.2012

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday adopted a bill whereby picnicking outside authorized picnic sites is forbidden. more

02.21.2012

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday adopted the articles of a bill which eliminates the statute of limitations for murder. more

02.17.2012

By the middle of this year, the Health Ministry will put up for public debate a new healthcare bill; as consultations with the public opinion are fully under way, so all options on the future more

02.01.2012

The Hungarian minority party UDMR, part of Romania’s ruling coalition, will ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to approve public wage and pension hikes in 2012 and oppose the enforcement of more