Romanian Govt To Urge Parliament To Debate On Draft Education Law With Urgency

The Government will resume talks on the education draft law in a special Cabinet meeting Monday, to forward it to Parliament as soon as possible.

The Education Ministry initially said that public debates on the draft education law would last two weeks but education unionists argued that, under the country’s law, public debates on normative acts should last one month and demanded an extension.

The country’s former education minister, social democrat Ecaterina Andronescu, on Thursday urged Education Minister Daniel Funeriu to withdraw the draft education law and start new public debates, after Romania’s Senate rejected Wednesday the simple motion on education submitted by the opposition parties.

The draft education law triggered protests countrywide and teachers threatened to stage full-blown strikes indefinitely if authorities fail to solve the problems they brought to their attention.