Of the package of ten national security laws already on the coalition table, three deserve special attention: the two draft laws on the organization and functioning of the Romanian Intelligence Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service and the draft law on intelligence and counterintelligence activity.
The three bills grant increased powers to the main secret services, the National Intelligence Service (SRI) and the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE), grant immunity only to officers of the two services and not to others and oblige citizens, companies, and authorities to cooperate with the services at their request and, perhaps most importantly, turn the services back into criminal investigation bodies through a slightly more sophisticated mechanism by expanding the list of threats to national security.
As a more general observation, the draft laws mentioned reflect the trend of militarization of the state in recent years, defying democratic norms and rules, and the proper functioning of a state governed by the rule of law. It should also be noted that the new security laws have been waiting in the drawer for the Constitutional Court to change its membership, which in recent years, under the influence of the former head of DNA,
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