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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis stated on Tuesday that Justice Minister Tudorel Toader should give up issuing an announced emergency decree which would re-open high profile criminal cases judged by the Supreme Court since 2013, deeming the issue “grossly unconstitutional”.

A Romanian court of appeals ruled Wednesday Romanian First League football referee Marius Martis and former referee Ionica Serea, placed into custody for 29 days on charges of corruption, will remain under arrest.

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc confirmed that the Government has brought a new amendment to the public procurement law, at the request of the European Commission, adding the lack of this revision could have prompted the EU not to acknowledge Romanian legislation and EU fund auctions.

Romania’s Supreme Court decided Monday to put off until January 26, 2009 the trial of the appeals of former high-ranking generals Athanasie Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac for the annulment of the sentence to 15 years in jail each for their role in killing demonstrators during the 1989 anti-communist revolution.

The Bucharest Court of Appeal approved Tuesday the Greater Romania Party's request to notify the Constitutional Court on the legality of several texts within Government Ordinance no. 66 and 97 in 2008.