Financial Semester I

January 1

- Increase in local taxes and fees comes into effect.

February 14

- Fitch Ratings maintains Romania's long-term foreign currency issuer rating at "BBB-", with a negative outlook.

February 24

- The governing coalition reaches a consensus on the 3rd Fiscal Package, which concerns the reform of the administration and the relaunch of the economy.

March 3

- The manufacturer of electrical equipment and energy infrastructure solutions Electro-Alfa International debuts on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), following an initial public offering worth 579.64 million lei.

March 7

- Moody's Ratings maintains Romania's long-term rating at "Baa3", with a "negative" outlook.

March 12

- The government decides to increase the minimum gross salary guaranteed in the country to 4,325 lei per month starting July 1, 2026, compared to 4,050 lei currently.

March 13

- The government adopts the state budget for 2026, which sets a deficit target of 6.2% of GDP for the end of the year.

March 19

- The government adopts a draft emergency ordinance to protect national interests in strategic areas, through which the state could use economic instruments to maintain and capitalize on strategic industrial capacities when the operators that hold them face financial difficulties.

March 20

- The state budget law and the state social insurance budget law are adopted by Parliament.

March 26

- The Government declares, by emergency ordinance, a crisis situation on the crude oil and petroleum products market for the period April 1-June 30, 2026, with the possibility of extension.

March 31

- The Government extends until June 30, 2026 the capping of the commercial surcharge on basic foodstuffs, maintaining the mechanism introduced by GEO no. 67/2023.

April 2

- The Executive approves the National Strategy of State Reserves for the period 2026-2030, which aims to strengthen the state's response capacity in situations of energy, food, military or humanitarian crisis.

April 3

- The executive adopts an emergency ordinance by which the excise duty on standard diesel sold on the domestic market is temporarily reduced by 30 bani per liter: from 2,804.29 lei/1,000 liters to 2,504.29 lei/1,000 liters.

April 15

- Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and the Minister of Energy, Bogdan Ivan, present a plan to eliminate speculative blockages in the electricity grids and accelerate strategic investments.

April 16

- The Government approves the report of an inter-ministerial committee led by the Deputy Prime Minister for State Reform, Oana Gheorghiu, a document containing the list of state-owned companies considered eligible for entering the listing procedure on the BVB.

April 23

- PSD ministers resign from the Bolojan Government, and in the following days the state secretaries, including the Secretary General of the Government, also resign.

April 28

- PSD and opposition parties submit a motion of censure against the Government, accusing it of "accelerated sale of public assets” and "subordination of the state's strategic interests to financial markets”.

April 29

- The motion of censure entitled "STOP the "Bolojan Plan” to destroy the economy, impoverish the population and fraudulently sell state assets” is presented in the reunified plenary of the Parliament by the leader of the AUR senators, Petrişor Peiu.

May 5

- The Government approves the SAFE agreement with the European Commission, through which our country can access up to 16.68 billion euros for the development of the defense industry, logistics infrastructure and strategic capabilities.

- The motion of censure initiated by PSD, AUR and PACE parliamentarians - Romania First against the Government led by Ilie Bolojan is adopted.

May 15

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

May 16

- Standard & Poor's reconfirms Romania's sovereign rating at BBB-/A-3, maintaining the country in the investment grade category.

May 18

- Consultations take place between President Nicuşor Dan and the parliamentary political parties and formations in order to outline a governing formula.

May 29

- A Russian Geran-2 drone crashes into a block of flats in Galaţi.

June 2

- The National Bank of Romania announces that, as of May 31, 2026, Romania's international reserves (currency plus gold) were 77,042 million euros, compared to 78,007 million euros on April 30, 2026.

June 4

- President Nicuşor Dan nominates MEP Eugen Tomac as candidate for prime minister.

June 5

- A naval drone of the type used in the war in Ukraine is spotted near Berth 78 in the Port of Constanta. It exploded without causing any casualties.

- The National Institute of Statistics revises the estimate of Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of the year in a positive direction: a decrease of 1.2% in real terms (on the gross series), compared to the first quarter of 2025, from -1.7%, initially published.

June 7

- The Competition Council fines ten banks in our country with 3.7 billion lei for coordinating their behavior within the procedure for establishing the ROBOR index.

June 14

- Eugen Tomac resigns after noting that he cannot gather the necessary political support.

- The President appoints the liberal Adrian Veştea, president of the Braşov County Council, for the position of Prime Minister. The PNL leadership rejects the proposal.

June 15

- The National Bank of Romania (BNR) announces that, in the period January-April 2026, the current account of the balance of payments recorded a deficit of 7,980 million euros, compared to 9,101 million euros in the period January-April 2025.

June 18

- The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) places the mayor general Ciprian Ciucu under judicial control and subsequently indicts him for bribery during the period in which he was mayor of Sector 6.

- The mayor of Timişoara, Dominic Fritz, definitively loses, at the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the lawsuit with the National Integrity Agency, in which he was declared to have a conflict of interest.

June 22

- Christian Tour becomes the first tour operator listed on the BVB, after conducting an initial public offering worth 149 million lei (28.4 million euros), concluded with a subscription rate of 121%.

- The Vestea Government is subject to the investiture vote, but only collects 189 votes out of the 233 required.

June 23

- Romania collects 2.25 billion euros from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), an amount that represents the payment related to payment request number 4.

June 25

- The Ministry of Finance announces that the general consolidated budget ended with a deficit of 35.94 billion lei, or 1.75% of GDP in the first five months of 2026, compared to a deficit of 64.23 billion lei, or 3.35% of GDP in the same period in 2025.

June 26

- The rating agency Moody's draws attention to the fact that prolonged political uncertainty and the lack of a functional parliamentary majority may put pressure on the fiscal consolidation process and the implementation of the reforms undertaken by Romania.

June 30

- The BET index, of the 20 most liquid stocks on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), rose by 32.9% in the first six months of this year, to 32,487 points.

- The BET-BK index, the benchmark for the performance of equity investment funds, appreciated by 29.4%, to 6,251 points.

- Shares of energy infrastructure company Premier Energy rose by 89.4% in the first half of the year, having the highest appreciation in the BET index.

- The BET-FI index, of former SIFs and Fondul Proprietatea, rose by 15.2%, to 104,406 points, the lowest appreciation among the baskets of shares on the Regulated Market.