Valeriu Zgonea

Former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea was convicted on Monday by the Bucharest Tribunal to three years imprisonment for the crime of influence peddling, in a case in which he stood accused by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) of intervening to appoint the daughter of a local social-democrat councilor in Buzau to an important public position.

President Klaus Iohannis sent the National Defence Strategy to the Parliament on Friday, the Presidential Administration informed.

The citizens' confidence in the state institutions should start from concrete measures for more transparent and open data, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Tuesday in his message to the conference 'Transparency and Open Data - Anticorruption and Security' organized by the "Ovidiu Sincai" Social Democratic Institute (ISD), in a partnership with the General Secretariat of th

The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has 14 days to come up with a report on the General Prosecutor's request to open an investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Saturday.

Romania's Chamber of Deputies and the Irish Parliament will sign a memorandum of understanding concerning, among other things, an exchange of expertise to prepare Romania for its 2019 presidency of the Council of the European Union, Romanian Speaker Valeriu Zgonea and Chairman of the Irish Parliament Sean Barrett told journalists at a joint news conference on Tuesday at Parliament Palace in Buc

Deputies' Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea on Monday, at the end of the meeting with Kingdom of Sweden Parliament Speaker Urban Ahlin, said that Romania is "an exporter of good practices" in the area of integration in the European Union.

Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, Valeriu Zgonea, on Wednesday stated, at his meeting with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Moldova, Viorel Cibotaru, that all the EU member states should work together, as a priority, to support Moldova's European aspirations.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday announced having informed Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea and Senate Chairman Calin Popescu Tariceanu about the need for the passage either of an emergency ordinance or of a draft law to ban exportation of unprocessed wood.

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The endorsement of the political parties Law, the law on funding the electoral campaigns and the law on the local elections, will give the small parties the possibility to involve actively in the local communities' activity and will put an end to the unhealthy practices between the financiers and the parties, by making all financial inflows transparent, says the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputi

The joint plenum of the Deputies' Chamber and Senate will vote on Monday, at 16,00, on the nomination of Liberal (PNL) MEP Eduard Hellvig as the civilian head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), Deputies' Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea announced.

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