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Romania’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday adopted with 168 votes in favor, 111 votes against and 14 abstentions a bill on stray dogs.

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday rejected with 164 votes against, 135 votes in favor and three abstentions the opposition’s simple motion targeting the way authorities tackled problems regarding the sale and use of plant-based psychoactive substances.

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies’ public administration committee on Tuesday adopted a bill whereby stray dogs will be kept in pounds for 30 days and local authorities will decide whether to neuter or euthanize them.

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies budget-finance committee Wednesday endorsed a bill submitted by the opposition, which scraps the lump-sum tax and sets the value added tax on food and home construction at 5%.

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies secretary general Gheorghe Barbu on Monday said the opposition social democrats’ no-confidence motion against the two laws that make up the Government’s austerity plan was submitted Monday with the cabinet of the Chamber’s Speaker.

Romanian Chamber of Deputies approved by majority of votes a decision adopting the report of the committee investigating former youth and sport minister Monica Ridzi, which asks the Government, the Competition Council and the Court of Accounts to check the spending of public funds for Youth Day.