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Romania opts for regional strategy to combat addictions

SBC News Romania opts for regional strategy to combat addictions

Romania will implement a new strategy to tackle and minimise addiction harms across its administrative regions. On Friday, President Klaus Iohannis promulgated a decree co-authored by Romania’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Justice to launch eight ‘regional centres for the treatment of addictions’. The project will see Romania adopt a new strategy to combat, minimise, and research addiction harms …

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Romania prohibition of gambling in small towns requires constitutional order 

SBC News Romania prohibition of gambling in small towns requires constitutional order 

Land-based gambling restrictions ordered by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu must be re-examined by the Constitutional Court of Romania to be applied as a federal law. The judgment was announced by the Supreme Court of Cassation and Justice, tasked with evaluating new land-based gambling restrictions that will reform Romania’s Criminal Code. To impose changes to Romania’s Criminal Code, the Supreme Court …

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Romania PM bans gambling in rural towns 

SBC News Romania PM bans gambling in rural towns 

Romania’s gambling sector faces further upheavals, following Parliament’s approval of an executive order by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to enforce ‘Legea Păcănelelor’ (The Pannel Law).  Yesterday, PM Ciolacu declared a victory for Romania’s PSD-&-PNL coalition government, who secured approval to implement a ban on “gambling localities in towns with less than 15,000 registered inhabitants”.  The law was authorised by a …

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