2025 in numbers

• January 1

- Our country fully enters the Schengen area.

• January 25

- Pieces of the Dacian Treasure of Romania are stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands. Authorities in Bucharest open a criminal case for aggravated theft.

• February 7

- Green Tech International, a group that operates geothermal wells and a platform for geothermal energy solutions, debuts on the BVB.

• February 10

- President Klaus Iohannis announces his resignation.

• February 12

- Ilie Bolojan is appointed interim president of the country.

• February 26

- Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu is placed under judicial control, being accused of six crimes.

• March 25

- Romgaz and OMV announce that they have started drilling in the Neptun Deep perimeter, to exploit the natural gas existing in the area.

• April 3

- The government adopts amendments to the Fiscal Code.

• May 4

- The first round of the presidential elections takes place, in which the independent candidate Nicuşor Dan managed to overcome Crin Antonescu, the candidate of the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition.

• May 5

- Marcel Ciolacu resigns as Prime Minister.

- Elena Lasconi resigns as President of the Save Romania Union (USR), the leadership of the party being taken over by the mayor of Timişoara and USR Vice President, Dominic Fritz.

• May 18

- The second round of the presidential elections takes place, won by Nicuşor Dan.

• May 20

- Marcel Colacu announces his retirement from the PSD leadership, the interim leadership of the party being taken over by Sorin Grindeanu.

• May 26

- The new President Nicuşor Dan is sworn in.

• June 20

- President Nicuşor Dan appoints Ilie Bolojan as Prime Minister.

• June 23

- The agreement for the formation of a governing coalition formed by PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and the National Minorities Group is signed. The new government, led by Ilie Bolojan, is sworn in.

• July 1

- The price cap on the electricity market is eliminated.

• July 7

- The Bolojan government assumes responsibility in Parliament for the fiscal-budgetary package, measures including increasing the standard VAT rate to 21%, introducing a single reduced rate of 11% for basic food and other essential products, increasing excise duties on alcohol, tobacco and fuels, additional taxation of dividends and large profits, as well as introducing CASS for pensions exceeding 3,000 lei.

• July 22

- The National Anticorruption Directorate announces the initiation of criminal proceedings and the establishment of a judicial control measure, for a period of 60 days, against Cristian Victor Popescu Piedone, the president of the National Authority for Consumer Protection, accused of using confidential information in the interest of an economic operator.

• July 25

- The package of fiscal measures is promulgated by President Nicuşor Dan.

• July 27

- Deputy Prime Minister Dragoş Anastasiu resigns, following press revelations regarding his involvement in a case that allegedly involved the bribery, for eight years, of an ANAF functionary.

• August 1

- The first package of fiscal measures established by the Government enters into force.

• August 5

- Ion Iliescu, the first elected president of Romania after the 1989 Revolution, passed away.

• August 29

- City halls across the country go on strike, in protest of the massive layoffs announced by the Government.

- BVB announces that it will participate in the initial share capital of the new stock exchange in the Republic of Moldova with an amount equivalent to 400,000 euros, out of an initial share capital estimated at 1.27 million euros.

• September 1

- Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan presents the second package of fiscal measures for which the Government has committed its responsibility to Parliament.

• September 4

- The Government approves a memorandum on the restructuring of the energy market.

• September 7

- Parliament rejects consecutive motions of censure filed by the Opposition against the Bolojan government.

• September 8

- A teachers' protest takes place: over 30,000 teachers demand decent salaries and investments in schools.

• September 25

- The executive decides to extend the cap on commercial supplements to basic foods until March 2026.

• October 1

- The government approves the budget amendment.

• October 20

- The Constitutional Court decides that the law through which the government sought to reform the special pensions of magistrates by assuming parliamentary responsibility is unconstitutional.

- Oana Gheorghiu is appointed by presidential decree as deputy prime minister for reform.

• October 31

- President Nicuşor Dan sends to the CCR a notification of unconstitutionality regarding the initiative to amend the Electricity and Natural Gas Law no. 123/2012, resubmitted for promulgation after a new legislative cycle.

• November 12

- The Board of Directors of the National Bank of Romania decides to maintain the monetary policy interest rate at 6.50% per year.

• November 24

- The Supreme Council of National Defense approves the new national security strategy and the projects that will be financed with 16.68 billion euros from the SAFE program.

• November 26

- Prosecutors begin searches in the Euroins file, two years after the insurance company's bankruptcy.

- Shares of the sausage and ready-meals producer Cris-Tim Family Holding debut on the BVB, after an initial public offering worth 454.35 million lei.

• November 28

- Ionuţ Moşteanu (USR) resigns from the position of Minister of Defense, amid controversies related to his studies.

- The Government adopts the second budget rectification of 2025.

• December 2

- The Government analyzes the amendments submitted to the draft law for the modification and completion of some normative acts in the field of service pensions and assumes the project in Parliament.

- The National Bank of Romania announces that, as of November 30, 2025, Romania's international reserves (currency plus gold) were 77,419 million euros, compared to 76,885 million euros on October 31, 2025.

• December 5

- The Government approves a memorandum that redefines the role of the Interministerial Committee for Supporting the Implementation of Corporate Governance in State-Owned Companies and validates the list of the first 17 enterprises subject to analysis for restructuring. Several energy and transport companies are targeted, including Electrocentrale Bucureşti, Oil Terminal, CFR SA, CFR Călători, Metrorex and Tarom.

• December 7

- Liberal Ciprian Ciucu is elected general mayor of the capital.

• December 15

- The National Bank of Romania announces that, in the period January-October 2025, the current account of the balance of payments recorded a deficit of 24,636 million euros, compared to 23,644 million euros in the period January-October 2024.

• December 17

- The Government decides that, by December 31, 2025, local councils must approve decisions regarding tax rates and fees for 2026.

• December 23

- The Government adopts the "Little Train Ordinance".

• December 24

- The Government extends, through a memorandum, the list regarding the restructuring of state-owned companies, adding Minvest, Romaero, Remin and Avioane Craiova.

• December 29

- The Ministry of Finance announces that the budget deficit reached 121.77 billion lei, or 6.40% of GDP in the first 11 months of 2025, compared to 125.72 billion lei, or 7.15% of GDP in the same period in 2024.