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The money market interest rate known as ROBOR was not manipulated, central bank governor Mugur Isarescu told members of the Senate's budge and finance committees at a hearing Tuesday.

Romania’s National Integrity Agency is looking into the wealth and interest statements of several senators who are allegedly incompatible with public office after they received derogations from the Senate’s committee for legal matters, allowing them to fill management positions in public institution

The Romanian Senate’s labor committee adopted Wednesday the country’s draft pension law with amendments and agreed on a pension point of at least 45% of the average gross salary.

The Romanian Senate’s Standing Office decided Tuesday, after putting the matter to the vote, senators who quit parliamentary parties to join the independent group of MPs will lose their positions in parliament standing committees.

Romanian senators adopted Tuesday a legislative proposition stipulating that people with accentuated or severe disability should be exempt from paying income taxes on their pensions.

Romanian senators adopted Tuesday, with 44 votes in favor and 29 against, a legislative proposition to allow the sale of homes built by the National Housing Agency (ANL) at inventory prices.

The Romanian Senate's committee for legal matters on Tuesday approved an amendment to Government Emergency Ordinance 9/2009 stipulating that, in fraud cases, driving licenses can be suspended only by courts, not by the issuing authority.