Romanian Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Education Law For Jan 4

On December 23, the Court postponed its examination of the contestation to the education law for Tuesday, December 28.

The request, filed by opposition MPs, lists a number of the law’s articles which supposedly are in breach of the Constitution, such as provisions on education in the language of national minorities, university autonomy, incompatibilities imposed on university rectors and regulations on the property of private and religious education units, which the signatories say would be nationalized.

In his separate complaint to the Constitutional Court, Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana, a social democrat and member of the opposition, argues that the bill’s adoption through a vote of confidence was unconstitutional. He says the education bill was adopted despite having been sent back to the Government on November 30, through a decision by the Parliament’s Standing Bureaus.