Four out of Romania’s six final RRF reform laws pass final vote in Parliament

Romania is expected to promulgate four out of the six laws supposed to unlock EUR 5 billion of grants under the European Union’s Resilience Facility (RRF), after the Senate failed to endorse the Integrity Law on July 30, according to ProTV. The four laws, having received final green light from Parliament, two in the Chamber of Deputies and two in the Senate, unlock EUR 3.5 billion of grants, if assessed positively by the European Commission.

Two last-minute amendments filed in the Senate by the Social Democrats (PSD) to the Integrity Law, approved by the Chamber of Deputies on the day before, prompted negative votes from Save Romania Union (USR) and the Liberal Party (PNL) – which plan to resume the legislation procedure next week. The amendments were specifically aimed at retroactively stripping USR president Dominic Fritz of its mayoral seat in Timisoara.