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.
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
A young Romanian has developed a new system that allows people to return entire bags of recyclable packaging at once, replacing the traditional method of inserting bottles one by one into reverse-vending machines. The concept, called IZI, was created by Ștefan Parascanu, who returned to Romania after studying and working in the United Kingdom. The […]
JTI, the global owner of both Winston and Camel, announced on Thursday, November 27, a plan to build a new, state-of-the-art factory in Ștefăneștii de Jos, Ilfov County. Designed to replace the current Bucharest production site, which is operating under space constraints, the facility is scheduled for completion in 2027. Ground works at the new […]
The City Hall of Oradea, in northwest Romania, has begun installing new smart parking meters as part of its ongoing modernization and digitalization of the municipal parking system. The first batch of devices has already been placed in central areas, and the entire system is expected to become operational by the end of the year. […]
