Governing PSD party leader Dragnea announces intention to change laws on Romanian intelligence services

Romanian House of Deputies speaker Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the governing Social Democratic Party (PSD), said on Wednesday that amendments to the national security laws should be initiated in the upcoming parliamentary session. According to Dragnea, Romanian intelligence services SRI and SIE (the foreign intelligence service), „two highly respected structures,” need new and more modern legislation.

„I believe and I hope that in this session we can start to seriously discuss the laws of national security, the SRI law, the SIE law. They are very old [pieces of legislation] and even from within these structures they are being requested to be changed, because they are 17 years old and the intelligence area has advanced a lot in the world and including Romania,” Dragnea said.