Events from the year 2024 in Romania.

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Klaus Iohannis Klaus Werner Iohannis (; ; born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former teacher who served as the fifth president of Romania from 2014 until his resignation in 2025. Prior to entering Politics of Romania, national politics, ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Marcel Ciolacu Ion Marcel Ciolacu (; born 28 November 1967) is a Romanian politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from 2023 to 2025. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Social Democratic Party (PSD). As a previously littl ...

* Deputy Prime Ministers: Marian Neacșu and

Cătălin Predoiu Cătălin Marian Predoiu (; born 27 August 1968) is a Romanian politician and lawyer who has been serving as the interim prime minister of Romania since 6 May 2025 following the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu, having previously served in this cap ...

* President of the Chamber of Deputies:

Alfred Simonis Alfred-Robert Simonis (born 4 January 1985) is a Romanian politician, born in Timiș County, member of the Social Democratic Party since 2001 and a member of Chamber of Deputies since 2016. Political activity Alfred Simonis has been a member o ...

(until 2 September); Daniel Suciu (2 September to 23 December);

Ciprian-Constantin Șerban Ciprian-Constantin Șerban (born 22 December 1985) is a Romanian politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sol ...

(since 23 December) *

President of the Senate President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate. It corresponds to the Speaker (politics), speaker in some other assemblies. The senate president often ranks high in a jurisdiction's Order of succession, succes ...

Nicolae Ciucă Nicolae Ionel Ciucă (; born 22 September 1967) is a Romanian politician and retired general of the Romanian Land Forces. Ideologically a conservative, he served as Prime Minister of Romania between 25 November 2021 and 12 June 2023 after receiv ...

(until 23 December);

Ilie Bolojan Ilie-Gavril Bolojan (; born 17 March 1969) is a Romanian politician serving as the president of the senate of Romania. He previously served as the acting president of Romania from February 2025, following the resignation of Klaus Iohannis, unti ...

(since 23 December) * President of the

High Court of Cassation and Justice The High Court of Cassation and Justice () is Romania's supreme court. It is the equivalent of France's Cour de Cassation and serves a similar function to other courts of cassation around the world. Naming history It held various names durin ...

: Corina Corbu * President of the

Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ru ...

: * Ciolacu Cabinet

Events

March

* 12 March – President

announces that he will run for

Secretary-General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, Power (social and political), power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the org ...

of the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental transnational military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American. Established in the aftermat ...

. * 31 March –

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

and Romania partially join the

Schengen Area The Schengen Area ( , ) encompasses European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their common borders. As an element within the wider area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) policy of the European Union (EU), it ...

, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks,

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

vetoed A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president (government title), president or monarch vetoes a bill (law), bill to stop it from becoming statutory law, law. In many countries, veto powe ...

travel by land without border checks over fears that non- EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union.

April

* 26 April – A court in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

rules that the human trafficking trial of British influencer

Andrew Tate Emory Andrew Tate III (born 1 December 1986) is an American and English social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer who is also a citizen of Vanuatu among another countries. He gained notoriety for promoting ...

can proceed.

June

* 3 June – A foreign national is arrested on suspicion of throwing a

molotov cocktail A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see '') is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a Fuse (explosives), fuse (typically a glass bottle filled wit ...

at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest. * 7 June – Fifteen people are injured in an explosion at a home improvement store in

Botoșani Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. Origin of the ...

. * 9 June: ** 2024 European Parliament election in Romania **

2024 Romanian local elections Local elections were held in Romania on 9 June 2024. They were the eighth Romanian Revolution, post-1989 local elections in the country. The previous 2020 Romanian local elections, Romanian local elections in 2020 were won by the National Libera ...

* 20 June – President Klaus Iohannis withdraws his candidacy for

secretary general of NATO The secretary general of NATO is the chief civil servant of the NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an intergovernmental military alliance with 32 member states. The officeholder is an international diplomat responsible for coordinat ...

July

*15 July – The government approves the

culling Culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding, it is removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on a specific trait. This is done to exagge ...

of 481

bear Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family (biology), family Ursidae (). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats ...

s in the country following the death of a 19-year-old woman in a bear attack in the

Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...

August

*6 August – Prime Minister

announces he will

boycott A boycott is an act of nonviolent resistance, nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organisation, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for Morality, moral, society, social, politics, political, or Environmenta ...

the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics due to an initial judging error in another competitor's Women's floor gymnastics routine, which after being corrected, caused Romanian gymnast

Ana Bărbosu Ana Maria Bărbosu (born 26 July 2006) is a Romanian artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She won the bronze medal in the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's floor, floor exercise at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She is also ...

to move from bronze

medal A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be in ...

position to 4th place. *16 August – Romanian gymnast

is awarded a bronze medal in a ceremony in

. The medal was originally awarded to

Jordan Chiles Jordan Lucella Elizabeth Chiles (born April 15, 2001) is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2024 Summer Olympics, having previously been a member of the silver medal-winning team at the 2020 Su ...

at the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

September

*12 September – A Russian missile strikes a

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-flagged

bulk carrier A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially naval architecture, designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as Grain trade, grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrie ...

carrying Ukrainian grain to

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

in the

exclusive economic zone An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine natural resource, reso ...

of Romania in the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

. No casualties are reported. *14–16 September – At least seven people, including four in

Galați County Galați () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați, between latitude, 45°25'N and latitude, 46°10'N latitude, longitude, 27°20'E and longitude, 28°10'E longitude. It borders the counties of Vaslu ...

, are reported killed amid

flood A flood is an overflow of water (list of non-water floods, or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant con ...

ing caused by Storm Boris.

October

* 5 October – The

Constitutional Court of Romania The Constitutional Court of Romania () is the institution which rules on whether the laws, decrees or other bills enacted by Romanian authorities are in conformity with the Constitution. It consists of nine members serving nine-year terms which ...

(CCR) notably disqualified S.O.S. Romania candidate Diana Șoșoacă from running in the

2024 Romanian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A Two-round system, second round was due to be held on 8 December 2024 as no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first round. However, on 6 December 2024 the Constituti ...

, ruling claiming that her public statements and conduct "systematically" violate the country's constitutional foundation of membership in Euro-Atlantic structures, without giving any specific reasons to backup their claim. The court's ruling, which was split 5–2 along party lines, was criticized by some for being politically motivated, undemocratic and a result of corruption.

November

* 24 November –

(first round): Far-right independent

Călin Georgescu Călin Georgescu (; born 26 March 1962) is a Romanian far-right politician and agronomist. He has long worked in the field of sustainable development, and served as President of the European Research Centre for the Club of Rome (2013–2015). G ...

wins a plurality of votes for the presidency and advances to the runoff along with centre-right candidate

Elena Lasconi Elena Valerica Lasconi (; born 20 April 1972) is a Romanian politician and former journalist. She is serving as the mayor of Câmpulung in Argeș County, having been elected in both the 2020 Romanian local elections, 2020 and 2024 Romanian local ...

. * 28 November –

: The

orders a recount of the votes cast in the first round following an appeal.

December

* 1 December –

2024 Romanian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 1 December 2024. No party won a majority in the election, which saw the incumbent National Coalition for Romania, led by the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and t ...

: The

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

wins a plurality of votes followed by the

Alliance for the Union of Romanians The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (, AUR) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Romania and Moldova. It was founded in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Romanian local elections, 2020 Romanian local and 2020 Romanian legisl ...

and the National Liberal Party. * 2 December –

: The

unanimously validates the results of the first round of the presidential election. * 6 December –

: The

annuls the results of the first round of the presidential election after intelligence agencies alleged that

benefited from a coordinated online campaign by Russia to promote his candidacy. * 11 December – The Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party,

Save Romania Union The Save Romania Union (, USR) is a Liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Romania, political party in Romania. It is the fourth-largest party in the Parliament of Romania, holding 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Romania), Chamber ...

, and the

Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR; , RMDSZ ; , UDMR) is a political party in Romania which aims to represent the significant Hungarian minority of Romania. Officially considering itself a federation of minority interests ra ...

agree to form a coalition government. * 12 December – The European Union grants Romania and Bulgaria full entry to the

beginning in 2025. * 19 December – The Bucharest Court of Appeal rules that the human trafficking trial of British influencer

cannot proceed due to errors made by prosecutors. * 23 December – President Iohannis nominates incumbent prime minister

to lead the next government. His nomination is approved the same day by parliament in a 240-143 vote.

Art and entertainment

* List of Romanian films of 2024 * List of 2024 box office number-one films in Romania *

List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Romania began submitting for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 1966. As of 2022, Romania has submitted thirty-eight films for Oscar consideration, scoring its first nomination for ''Collective'' at the 93rd Academy Awards ...

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October

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December

Art and entertainment

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