nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170201-170532 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170201s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170201-170532 doi eng 342 23 Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Author aut ‘We Don’t Need No Constitution’ – On a Sad EU Membership Anniversary in Romania Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Verfassungsblog 2017-02-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier These are troubled constitutional times in Romania. The newly elected government led by the corruption-ridden PSD party is pushing for legislative changes to make corruption offences virtually unpunishable by means of dubious Emergency Ordinances. A pending appeal before the Constitutional Court seeks to have legal provisions which prohibit persons with criminal convictions to occupy public positions in the Government declared unconstitutional. These attempts are met with resistance by the President who calls for an anti-corruption referendum. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Corruption Emergency Ordinance Klaus Iohannis Liviu Dragnea Romanian Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/we-dont-need-no-constitution-on-a-sad-eu-membership-anniversary-in-romania/ raw object