Romanian Parliament passes SAFE, PNRR-related bills during extraordinary session

29 July 2026 The two houses of the Romanian Parliament reunited on Wednesday, July 29, for an extraordinary plenary session and passed several projects related to the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan, or PNRR, as well as the approval of the SAFE loan agreement. The session comes amid heated disagreements between the centrist parties that formed the former governing coalition, namely the Social Democrats (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL), Save Romania Union (USR), and the Hungarian minority party UDMR. During the session on July 29, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the draft law establishing the legal framework through which the authorities may intervene in crises on the fuel market, through temporary measures intended to limit the impact on the economy and consumers. Among the p