Frans Timmermans

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said on Tuesday in Strasbourg that there is currently no discussion on the activation of Article 7 of the EU Treaty in the case of Romania and that the cooperation process within the CVM holds all the tools for a successful change.

The non-legislative resolution on the rule of law in Romania was passed on Tuesday by the European Parliament 473 -to- 151 votes and 40 abstentions, a text that affirms the MEPs' "deep concern" towards the judicial and criminal legislation's reform in Romania and "condemns the violent and disproportionate intervention of the police forces during the Bucharest protests" in August

It is an election campaign intended to catapult the winner into one of the EU's top jobs, but 445 million voters could be forgiven for not noticing.

Europe's largest political group, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), will on Thursday choose their candidate to run the European Commission, the powerful executive that drafts and enforces EU law.

Romania's parliament on Wednesday voted to adopt a disputed law on money-laundering meant to implement a European Union directive in the field, a year and a half after the deadline had passed and months after Brussels referred the country to the European court for failing to comply.

The European Commission and the German government have joined a number of international journalism organizations in condemning - and calling for an independent investigation into - the killing of Victoria Marinova, a local TV journalist in the town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria.

Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Tuesday had a meeting with European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans on a visit to Strasbourg where she underscored a need for close co-ordination between Romania and the European Commission during the Romanian presidency of the EU Council, expressing a wish fort the debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday to be reasoning-base

Romania still has a chance to give up legislation changes that threaten the fight against corruption, but the European Commission will not hesitate to take Bucharest to court if the government remains deaf to all warnings, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans told MEPS at a late-night hearing in the European Parliament Human Rights and Civil Liberties Committee on Monday.

Chairman of the Opposition's National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban argues that by the letter addressed to the Brussels officials Premier Viorica Dancila does nothing else but "lie" and "execute antidemocratic orders", and that for this reason she must step down.

Premier Viorica Dancila sent President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans a letter, the EU executive body confirmed on Friday.

We can confirm having received the letter and the answer will follow in due time, a spokesperson of the European Commission said on Friday, at the request of AGERPRES.

On 12 June 2018, negotiators from the three institutions continued their discussions on strengthening the EU Transparency Register.