Justice Minister Tudorel Toader argues that he won’t give up on the procedure to remove current Prosecutor General of Romania Augustin Lazar from office. “I won’t give up on the procedure to remove the current prosecutor general. It’s worth noticing the different approach that the Cotroceni Presidential Palace has – the request for removal “is not opportune from a political viewpoint” in comparison with the request for removal “is not adequate”!!!,” Tudorel Toader wrote on Monday on his Facebook page, in a post scriptum to a previous post. Toader announced he will publish on Tuesday the procedure and the appointment calendar, as well as Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar’s candidacy file. “Tomorrow, I will present the procedure and the appointment calendar of the current prosecutor general. Tomorrow, I will also make public the content of his candidacy file. In order to be able to identify all the inconsistencies, it would be preferable to also know the content of the file based on which the appointment decree was approved and signed. Normally, the filed from the MJ [the Justice Ministry], the CSM [the Superior Council of Magistracy] and Cotroceni should have the same content!,” he wrote in his post. Last week, the Minister of Justice initiated the procedure for removing Prosecutor General of Romania Augustin Lazar from office. The report regarding the managerial activity of the Prosecutor General specified that President Klaus Iohannis would not have checked the regularity of Augustin Lazar’s appointment as Romania’s Prosecutor General, the proposal being made by the Minister of Justice at that time with the non-observance of the legal provisions. “We don’t know if this omission has to do with the fact that the Prosecutor General’s candidacy file included precisely a decision on the dismissal of a case related to Romania’s President in office,” the report mentions. The CSM saaid that Lazar’s candidacy file did not include any resolution dismissing a case involving Iohannis. Augustin Lazar requested the Department for Human Resources and Organisation of the CSM to release a copy of the “resolution regarding the dismissal of a case involving Romania’s President in office,” a document which was supposedly included in the file from 2016 with the proposal to appoint Lazar in office. “Following your request (…), we bring to your knowledge that, after checking the documentation attached to our file (…) (regarding the approval of the Minister of Justice’s proposal to appoint as Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice Mr Augustin Lazar, prosecutor general of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Alba Iulia Court of Appeals), no such document was identified that would refer to the topic you mentioned in your request,” said the document sent by the CSM to Augustin Lazar.
Romanian non-profit Dăruiește Viață has completed a new renovation project at the “Louis Țurcanu” Emergency Children’s Hospital in Timișoara, upgrading the Pediatric Onco-Hematology Transplant Unit to modern medical standards. The investment, worth approximately EUR 150,000, was funded by Linde Gaz Romania and Atos Global Delivery Center. The organisation has been working with the Timișoara hospital […]
The multimedia exhibition Aici Se Vede Jazz (Here You Can See Jazz), set to open at SAC Berthelot in Bucharest, explores how jazz found its way in the pre-1990 Bucharest and “the contemporary ways to listen, visualize, perform and relate artistically to its world of sounds and ideas.” Bucharest had improvised studios, rehearsals with the […]
Aon Romania, part of the global group Aon plc, draws attention to the urgent need for structured solutions to protect trade receivables in an economic context characterized by high volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. The subject was central to the discussions at TRADE CREDIT TALKS - Receivable Protection in the Age of Volatility, where business leaders […]
Bucharest’s shopping centres posted mixed financial results in 2024, with major discrepancies between the city’s largest malls and mid-sized retail centres, according to financial analysis platform RisCo.ro. The data shows contrasts in profitability and turnover, as well as significant losses among some of the capital’s biggest retail projects. AFI Cotroceni recorded the highest turnover of […]
Nearly nine in ten Romanians expect to spend less or no more than last year on Christmas shopping, according to a new survey by tbi bank that highlights the impact of rising prices on household budgets ahead of the winter holidays. The nationwide poll, conducted in October on a sample of 1,011 respondents, shows that […]
A total of 77% of homeowners who answered a survey by ING and Ipsos said they implemented measures in the past three years to improve energy efficiency. The need to save on energy bills was the main driver of household modernization, the survey showed. Most respondents (62%) said they did so to reduce energy costs, […]
