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Military prosecutor’s office facing checks following inquiry into Mafia-style intelligence op against journalists and magistrates
A criminal inquiry into the tailing and tapping of Romanian journalists and magistrates last week has led to official checks on how that inquiry was… Mai departe »
My Government / My Justice – Considerations on the naming of new top prosecutors
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday signed the decrees naming three new chief prosecutors. He did so by ignoring the fact that the main body… Mai departe »
Who are the prosecutors eyeing top jobs in key judiciary bodies
Romania is expecting to see who are the people due to take over the helm of its key prosecutorial bodies. As official terms in office… Mai departe »
How we lost faith and why we must recover it
When asked why young people want to leave Romania, citizens list three reasons: lack of trust in the authorities, corruption – which is also a… Mai departe »
Sifting through the ashes of the state
The Caracal murder, the radiography of the local mafia in Olt, the case of public indifference towards a distressed minor recently occurred on the streets… Mai departe »
Ciorapel the Baron and Dancila the Unsuspecting. How the PSD government and its barons are making a mockery of crucial Romanian infrastructure projects
More than seven years, or better yet, 2,634 days (as calculated by Hotnews) have gone by since the first PSD government after Romania’s EU accession… Mai departe »
Exclusive: Court of Auditors’ checks of PSD’s use of public subsidies halted by Dragnea acolyte. A step by step account
Sources from within the Romanian Court of Auditors have informed G4media.ro that in 2018 a Court of Auditors’ department notified the PSD that it would… Mai departe »
Why did they choose Dancila as the head of the PSD
Many saw in Iliescu the supreme evil, then Adrian Năstase came along, and evil became relative. He may have been evil, but at least he… Mai departe »
Who governs Romania: Dancila and the PSD or the opposition? Who is responsible for the horrors of the Dragnea era?
Dancila’s government has weathered the motion of no confidence, but it acts as if they were in the opposition. The pension law didn’t get enough… Mai departe »
Liviu Dragnea, sentenced to three and a half years in prison / He will soon be imprisoned
On Monday, May 27th, Liviu Dragnea was sentenced by the High Court to three years and six months imprisonment in the Teleorman Child Directorate fictitious… Mai departe »
Why did Dancila get a swollen head? The third emancipation in Dragnea’s era
Dragnea’s favorite expression when it comes to PSD members who end up flexing their muscles once they get to power is that they get „a… Mai departe »
Candidate for a day?
Mircea Geoana will remain in the party’s history, and in the collective memory, as the first leader of the PSD who became president for a… Mai departe »
EU elections in Romania : local politics on trial
More than ever, Liviu Dragnea’s political fate depends on the EU elections’s outcome and on the PSD-ALDE, which its numbers will convey to the system…. Mai departe »
Radu Mazare’s bad luck: the new president of Madagascar just unleashed „the war on corruption”
Radu Mazare was arrested and will be extradited to Romania after a quick decision by the authorities in Madagascar, although the former mayor of Constanta… Mai departe »
The Knight of Tomatoes and the return of the four assassins
Dragnea has hit a rough patch : his weapons – total victimization and extreme populism – had to be activated. On Sunday, he swung them… Mai departe »
Europe Day in Romania – same time, different place: a historic achievement and and a resounding crash
Thursday, May 9th, was a day of great contrasts. On Europe Day, at the EU Sibiu summit, President Klaus Iohannis succeeded in projecting the bright… Mai departe »
Dragnea’s „fixer” in the judiciary system and at the Constitutional Court
The appointment of an opportunist judge and of an obedient prosecutor at the Constitutional Court secures a PSD controlled majority in one of the most… Mai departe »
The feast with the public sector salaries, a time-bomb set by the PSD. Who will defuse it?
The expenditure on public sector salaries has exploded. It is apparent even from the statistics put out by the PSD government. The question now is… Mai departe »
A party that is toxic for press freedom. Dragnea has pushed censorship and self-censorship in the media to new heights
On World Press Freedom Day we must be able to say loudly and clearly that PSD was and is toxic for the Romanian press. Whenever… Mai departe »
The Chamber of Deputies, the decision forum, adopted the amendments to the Criminal Codes / The Minister for Development stood among the members of the UDMR party during to voting procedure, without the votes of which the changes would not have passed
The amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code were adopted on Wednesday by the Chamber of Deputies, the decision-making body in this… Mai departe »
Et tu, Viorica?
On Wednesday, following proof of a working PSD-ALDE majority in Parliament, PSD leader Liviu Dragnea gave Prime Minister Dăncilă an ultimatum: either a government restructuration… Mai departe »
The EU Commission’s preventive strike: Article 7 veiled threat if the government releases the emergency decree meant to save Dragnea
On Tuesday evening, the European Commission made an unusual gesture, on the far outskirts of diplomatic practice. Faced with Liviu Dragnea’s pressures for the release… Mai departe »
The „greed tax” – PSD’s great failure. Dragnea’s conqueror aura is dimming and Vâlcov is one step closer to being ousted
Emergency decree 114, branded by PSD’s false Robin Hoods as the „greed tax”, was neutralized today by its very same prophets, who were seriously impacted… Mai departe »
How the PSD became beholden to Dan Voiculescu. The virulent anti-EU discourse exported from Antena 3 studios directly to Brussels
Of the nine eligible positions allotted to the PSD for the EU elections, three are taken by Dan Voiculescu’s people: Carmen Avram, Chris Terhes and… Mai departe »
Major change in tactics. The emergency decree meant to save Dragnea – announced, owned, and negotiated in Brussels
This time it’s different : the attempts at amending criminal law and saving Liviu Dragnea &co from the long arm of the law are performed… Mai departe »
A petition to exclude PSD from the family of European socialists was filed in the European Parliament: the exclusion of PSD would be a reaffirmation of the values and goals of the S&D Alliance
A delegation of Romanians living abroad filed on Tuesday a petition signed by nearly 18,000 people at the European Parliament, calling for the exclusion of… Mai departe »
The Aprozar revival vs Artificial Intelligence. Why Dragnea tries to get us back into the arms of the daddy state
Don’t be fooled: Dragnea hates the proverbial communist Aprozar (grocery store) full of Vietnamese shrimp and homegrown tomatoes. For a merchant who literally put water… Mai departe »
A Unique moment: How Kovesi found out that she won and why the MEPs preferred her
I stumbled upon her at the airport in Brussels as she was heading to the boarding gate, accompanied only by an aide. The flight has… Mai departe »
The miscalculations of Mr. Dragnea
Why did the PSD’s leader attend the Congress of the European Socialists in Madrid, anyway, where he was basically „slaughtered” and publicly humiliated by his… Mai departe »
The link between Toader’s Decree and Dragnea
With the newly adopted emergency decree, Liviu Dragnea takes one of the last steps towards the takeover of the Prosecutor’s Office, setting a specific deadline… Mai departe »
Kovesi’s investigation: another step towards the Republic of Thugs
Laura Codruţa Kovesi’s investigation confirms all the fears expressed last year by the Venice Commission, the GRECO report and the CVM warnings, and the alarm… Mai departe »
VIDEO The head of the Foreign Investors Council: „Decree 114 is toxic for business”. On demonizing the companies with foreign ownership: „It’s an opportunistic game of looking for scapegoats”
Franz Weiler, the chairman of the Foreign Investors Council (FIC), in an interview with G4Media.ro, said that the government’s adoption overnight of the emergency decree… Mai departe »
DOCUMENTS Prosecutor Tudorel Toader in the Communist Party archives: As a member of the Communist Party, he conscientiously fulfills the tasks entrusted to him, showing spirit of initiative and being combative in the general assemblies
Romania’s current Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, was born in 1960, in the Vulturul village of Vrancea County. He completed his primary and secondary education… Mai departe »
What Tudorel Toader knows
The former prosecutor in Panciu knows, since the time he was investigating petty crimes, that with time, evidence becomes obsolete, that witnesses start forgetting things,… Mai departe »
Call of the Romanian Judges and Prosecutors to the European Union Members States’ Justice Ministers
Call of the Romanian Judges and Prosecutors to the European Union Members States’ Justice Ministers Your Excellencies, In the context of your 6th to 8th… Mai departe »
The danger facing the anti-PSD movement: A war of attrition between Klaus Iohannis and Dacian Ciolos, PNL, USR, and PLUS
One of the greatest dangers threatening the right’s chances of reporting victories in the upcoming electoral battles against the PSD, and to banding together eventually,… Mai departe »
The real parallel state. How Darius Vîlcov takes over one institution after another, building an army of orcs
Darius Vîlcov is turning out to be a serious threat to Romania’s financial stability. Sentenced to 8 years in the lower courts for corruption, an… Mai departe »
Who destabilizes the Balkans: Putin or the Americans?
Ahead of his visit to Serbia on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview for „Politika” and „Novosti” accused the United States and other… Mai departe »
The missing piece in the judiciary puzzle. Next step: the colonization of the system
The latest decision of the Constitutional Court, which paves the way for the voiding of evidence gathered on the basis of protocols signed with the… Mai departe »
G4Media.ro condemns the sanctioning of Realitatea TV on political grounds
G4Media.ro condemns the double standards, the manifestly disproportionate sanction in relation to alleged violations, and the behavior of National Audiovisual Council towards a TV station… Mai departe »
Rheinmetall denounces opaque bidding in a large military contract. The big weapon endowment scandals provoked by PSD
Over the past two years, the PSD-led government has provoked several major scandals related to the endowment of the army, involving billions of euros. The… Mai departe »
The budget of state bankruptcy. Miners Dragnea and Teodorovici are giving the private sector the pick hammer treatment
Promises made to captive voters and projects earmarked for political clients brought PSD face to face with reality: the government has no money for the… Mai departe »
The National Anticorruption Directorate: Coroner’s Report
The time of death of the famous National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) was officially called on October 29, 2018 by a DNA prosecutor talking with the… Mai departe »
Mission Impossible: where will Dancila’s government find the money for all the pension and salary increases, plus billions for barons
With the budget for 2019 left hanging in the air, the debacle created by the PSD in the central administration has reached new heights. Populism… Mai departe »
The emergency decree is coming! Why we cannot wait and see what will appear in the Official Gazette
This time around, Liviu Dragnea has decided to play with his cards on the table. He summoned, overnight, another National Executive Committee (CEX) to push… Mai departe »
They broke one of his fingers
By the action in Parliament on Wednesday, the opposition seems to have aimed for an artistic effect when burning the supreme leader’s effigy. After ramming… Mai departe »
The PSD government is hanging by 11 MPs. This notwithstanding, a dismissal is unlikely
The PSD-ALDE coalition lost its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, keeping a total of 244 MPs, only 11 more than the number needed for… Mai departe »
SOURCES Amnesty and pardon. Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his approval on the decree, on the condition that it be initiated by another ministry.
Sources within the government have told G4Media.ro. that Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his seal of legal approval on the decree for amnesty… Mai departe »
The four dunces in charge of Romania’s economic policy
As far as fiscal policy and the economy are concerned, the PSD relies on four individuals : Darius Vâlcov, Eugen Teodorovici, Ion Ghizdeanu (head of… Mai departe »
Decree 13 reloaded? PSD announces massive giveaways, same as in January 2017
Talk of a new emergency decree on amnesty and pardon is growing by the day. And the PSD’s conduct is a carbon copy of that… Mai departe »