The estimated damage to the EU budget is of €436,663, based on fake invoices Severin allegedly filed during 2007-2010. "The documents he presented are linked to a series of consultancy contracts with six Romanian companies, set up with the purpose of justifying fictitious services," the prosecutors said....
A former minister of foreign affairs and heavyweight in Romania's post-Communist Social Democratic Party, Severin was also stripped of his immunity so prosecutors could start criminal proceedings....
[Romanian government] has also issued decrees limiting the powers of constitutional judges, accused of favouring the president who is currently suspended from office. A referendum on 29 July is set to confirm or reject the president's impeachment for alleged abuse of power.
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