The Parliament’s Standing Bureau on April 6 decided to set up a Parliamentary Council for European Integration as a mechanism for stimulating and monitoring the implementation of the reforms agreed with the development partners, IPN reports.
Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu said this is a new mechanism that will ensure cooperation between the legislature’s secretariat and commissions and the Government and parliamentary control over the carrying out of the Association Agreement with the EU.
The Speaker also referred to the draft law on the regulation of information technology, which aroused controversy in society, saying he will insist on debating the bill so as to find the necessary balance in the intention to protect the children from online abuses and to ensure the freedom of expression.
Referring to the budgetary-fiscal policy for this year, Andrian Candu said the parliamentary alliance reached a consensus and will not accept to increase particular taxes, such as the vignette (road toll) and land tax, as the Ministry of Finance proposed.
