Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan will hold a press conference on Tuesday on the reform of special pensions, the press office at the Victoria Palace announced. In an interview with G4Media, the Prime Minister said that the law on magistrates' pensions is finalized, among its provisions is raising the retirement age for judges and magistrates to 65. "Raise the retirement age to the standard age of 65, increase the length of time after which you can retire and clarify the provision related to the amount of the pension so that it follows a European model, both in terms of the amount of the pension, but also in terms of how it is related to", said Ilie Bolojan. He said that these amendments will be applied in the future, ‘in order to be able to be standing on its constitutional footing’. ‘Today, unfortunately, the justice system has an unclear mechanism which generated thousands of processes with decisions which cost the Romanian state billions of euro and which should be modified, so that the system should be clear, a predictable system which should not affect the incomes in this area, but which should not allow such processes and a general lack of clarity. So, the quality of the legal documents which regulate these areas must be improved’ Ilie Bolojan said. Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said in an interview with G4Media that this fall "we should come up" with a legislative package to reform special pensions, including military pensions in the fall. He said the reform of magistrates' pensions would be passed earlier in August. "The reform of special pensions, those on magistrates should be part of this package which should be adopted during August. This is also a time pressure because of the conditionality of a milestone (in the PNRR - ed.) and we have to recover several hundreds of millions of euros that are blocked, because we have not closed this conditionality.
“Catane,” a dark comedy inspired by real events and directed by Ioana Mischie, is set to have its first special screenings in Romania after a successful festival circuit. The film had its world premiere at the IFFI Goa festival in India and was nominated this year at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Best […]
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George Smyth, 18, went missing on a hike near Romania’s famous Bran Castle more than a week ago. On November 23, the British citizen started to suffer from hypothermia and exhaustion and called the emergency services. Trying to locate him, mountain rescue services conducted searches over the next few days but were only able to […]
Over 107,000 people in Prahova and Dâmbovița counties, in southern Romania, have been without drinking water since Friday, November 28, due to problems at the Paltinu Dam. According to local authorities, the problems are set to persist until next week. The dam registered a drop in water levels, leading to problems in the water distribution system. […]
A special ‘Silent Day’ event will be held at the Bucharest Christmas Market in Constituției Square on Wednesday, December 3, aimed at creating a quieter and more accessible environment for children with sensory disabilities. The initiative is designed to make the festive market manageable for children who may struggle with loud noise, bright lights, and […]
Romanians have the highest level of trust in others in the European Union, according to the most recent Eurostat data for the year 2024, ahead of the usual leader of the ranking, Finland. The indicator ‘trust in others’ measures a person’s trust in people they do not know on a scale from 0 (‘I...
