Romania
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 8, 1991, revised in 2003
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate (Senat) and Chamber of Deputies (Adunarea Deputatilor)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Court
RELIGIONS
86.8% Eastern Orthodox, 7.5% Protestants, 4.7% Catholics, other minorities including Muslims
From the country
- JANUARY 17, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored...
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored by Government
- JANUARY 1, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
- DECEMBER 9, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor tapped a rich...
Ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor tapped a rich vein of anger among Romanians against crime, corruption and minorities to reach a runoff second round for president against leftist Ion Iliescu
- OCTOBER 5, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that...
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that Ilie Ilascu and his wife Nina were granted Romanian citizenship
- JULY 6, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's...
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly step in and help secure the release of Ilie Ilascu
- JUNE 13, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum...
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum of the Romanian Press Everywhere" appealed to the Presidents, Governments and Parliaments of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine for a firm intervention to obtain the release of Romania
- MAY 26, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his...
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Geremek, that Poland assume the judicial retrial of Ilie Ilascu, who is detained in a Tiraspol prison
- MAY 21, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and...
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and Moldovan parliaments signed a joint declaration in which the two countries requested a new trial of the Ilie Ilascu case
- APRIL 29, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Jurists' Union of Romania addressed an open letter...
The Jurists' Union of Romania addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to intervene to secure the prison release of Ilie Ilascu and the members of his group, who were sentenced to death in December 1993 by the separatist au
- APRIL 26, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Romania cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 11, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Otto Weber, leader of the Ecologists' Party, proposed...
Otto Weber, leader of the Ecologists' Party, proposed amendments to the penal code to re-introduce the death sentence for aggravated murders
- JANUARY 1, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art