Court stamp duty stays as it is: Constitutional Court rejects 18 cases in one decision
The Constitutional Court joined eighteen cases opened between 2021 and 2025 and rejected them all: the ordinance on court stamp duty and the one…
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State institutions have 90 days to put the buildings and land in the private domain on the record
The Ministry of Finance has approved a single set of rules for the centralised inventory of the assets in the State's public domain and…
Romania Gets a Command Centre for Energy Crises: What CONSE Is and Who Decides When There’s a Crisis on the Electricity Market
The Ministry of Energy has set up CONSE, the body that officially declares a crisis on the electricity market and coordinates the response, bringing…
Mandate Expenses of Listed State Company Executives Clarified: What Law No. 172/2026 Provides
Law No. 172/2026 approves GEO No. 73/2018: representation, transport, per diem and accommodation expenses of directors and managers in publicly traded state enterprises are…
Government wants fewer emergency ordinances and less red tape by 2034: what the new regulatory strategy says
The Government has approved, through Decision no. 559/2026, an eight-year strategy aimed at writing better laws, cutting emergency ordinances and simplifying red tape for…
Citizenship files submitted under the 5-month rule have moved to 2 years, and the Constitutional Court does not intervene
The Constitutional Court dismissed as inadmissible the plea of eleven applicants for Romanian citizenship who challenged the application of the new 2-year period to…
Parliament approves the combined 2024 elections, two years on
Law no. 145/2026 approves, without a single amendment, the March 2024 ordinance that combined the European Parliament elections with the local ones on 9…
UEFA Europa League final in Bucharest, declared of national importance. The decision does not allocate a single leu
Government Decision no. 543/2026 declares the UEFA Europa League competition and the Romanian bid for the Bucharest final of 2028 or 2029 to be…
A citizen cannot challenge an appointment made by Parliament: the CCR shows where the wall stands
The Constitutional Court dismissed as inadmissible the plea that sought to give a private individual the right to contest a resolution of Parliament. The…