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Klaus Iohannis
President of Romania since
Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian:[ˈhanis]; German:[ˈklaʊsjoˈhanɪs]; born 13 June ) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the sixth president of Romania from He became the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in , after previously serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between and Prior to entering national politics, he was a physics teacher at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu.
He was initially elected in and then subsequently re-elected by a landslide in His late presidency (his second term) has been marked by democratic backsliding[2] as well as a slight shift towards illiberalism[3] and a more authoritarian[4] style of government, especially after the political crisis and the formation of the National Coalition for Romania (CNR).[5]
It has faced allegations of suppression of freedom of speech and also suppression of press freedom.[6][7] Furthermore, his approval ratings have decreased since April onwards as his electorate's trust in him declined based on his political behaviour, favouring the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and rebuffing his former political allies (albeit several of them being solely conjunctural in the past) in the process.
A survey from June shows that over 90% of Romanians do not trust Iohannis, with only 8% having a positive opinion on him.[8]
In , The Economist ranked Romania the last country in the European Union (EU) in terms of democracy,[9][10] even behind Viktor Orbán's Hungary.[11][12][13][14][15] Moreover, as of , Romania ranks 61st globally according to The Economist Democracy Index (on par with Montenegro), five positions behind fellow EU country Hungary who had also undergone democratic backsliding.[16]
He was first elected the mayor of the Romanian town of Sibiu, Transylvania in , on behalf of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR).
Although the Transylvanian Saxon population of Sibiu had declined to a tiny minority by the early s, he won a surprise victory and was re-elected by landslides in , , and He is credited with turning his home town into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations, Sibiu subsequently obtaining the title of European Capital of Culture in alongside Luxembourg City, the capital of Luxembourg.
In October , four of the five political groups in the Parliament, excluding the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) of then President Traian Băsescu, proposed him as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Romania; however, Băsescu refused to nominate him despite the Parliament's adoption of a declaration supporting his candidacy.[17] He was again the candidate for Prime Minister of the PNL and the PSD in the elections in the same year.[18] In February , He became a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), accepting an invitation from then liberal leader Crin Antonescu, and was immediately elected the party's first vice-president, eventually becoming the PNL president during the following year.
Ideologically a conservative,[19][20][21][22] he is the first Romanian president belonging to an ethnic minority, as he is a Transylvanian Saxon, part of Romania's German minority, which settled in Transylvania during the High Middle Ages.[23]
Early life and professional career
Born in the old city centre of Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt) to a Transylvanian Saxon family, Klaus Iohannis is the eldest child of Gustav Heinz and Susanne Johannis.
He has a younger sister, Krista Johannis (born ).[24] His father worked as a technician at a state-owned company, while his mother was a nurse.[25] Both his parents as well as his sister emigrated from their native Sibiu/Hermmanstadt to Würzburg, Bavaria in Germany in , acquiring citizenship there under the right of return granted by the German nationality law,[26][27] as most other Transylvanian Saxons after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
However, he chose to live and work in Romania.[28]
After graduating from the Faculty of Physics of the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca in , Iohannis worked as a high school physics teacher at various schools and colleges in his native Sibiu, including, from to , at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College, the oldest German-speaking school in Romania.
From to , he was Deputy General School Inspector of Sibiu County, and from until his election as mayor in , he was the General School Inspector, head of public schools in the county.
Private life
Alongside his mother tongue, German, and the language of the majority, the Romanian language, Iohannis is also fluent in English and can speak French to a certain degree.
Klaus iohannis declaratie de avere Klaus Iohannis a fost profesor de fizică și inspector școlar înainte de a deveni primar al municipiului Sibiu în A fost reales în funcție în , și , reprezentând Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România.The original German spelling of his name is Johannis, but the name was registered by a Romanian official as Iohannis on his birth certificate[29] and he has used both spellings interchangeably ever since.[30]
In , he married ethnic Romanian Carmen Lăzurcă, an English teacher at the Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Sibiu.[31][32] They have no children.
Iohannis is a member of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, the German-speaking Lutheran church, mainly of the Transylvanian Saxons, with a lesser presence in other parts of Romania.[33]
As of , his parents, sister and a niece live in Würzburg.[34]
Iohannis has stated that his family settled in Transylvania in present-day Romania years ago, more specifically around [dubious &#; discuss] in the small town of Cisnădie (German: Heltau), Sibiu County.[35]
Political career
He joined the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) in , and served as a member of its board of education in Transylvania from , and a member of the local party board in Sibiu from In , he was elected President of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR), succeeding former president Eberhard Wolfgang Wittstock.
Mayor of Sibiu
In , the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania in Sibiu (FDGS), the local chapter of the Democratic Forum of Germans (FDGR/DFDR), decided to back him as a candidate for mayor. While initially not wanting anything else than to represent the forum through a local candidate and to obtain a certain degree of local political visibility at that time, the leadership of FDGR/DFDR was surprised for his subsequent victory.
Carmen johannis: La 30 de ani de la Revoluția din Decembrie , pe 21 decembrie , Klaus Iohannis a preluat oficial cel de-al doilea mandat, depunând jurământul în fața Parlamentului României. Anul a reprezentat momentul în care România a intrat într-o nouă etapă, una de modernizare în spirit european.
Despite the fact that Sibiu's German minority (represented, more specifically, by Transylvanian Saxons) had shrunken to a mere %, Iohannis was elected with % of the votes and has won three re-elections in a row, getting some of the largest electoral scores in the country: % of the vote in ,[36] and % in [37] Consequently, he became the third ethnic German mayor of a Romanian city since Albert Dörr[38] and Hans Jung (who briefly served in in Timișoara), the former who had also served in Sibiu from /07 to (the first was Otto Helmut Mayerhoffer, who served as elected mayor of the town of Roman in Neamț County, between and ).[39]
Throughout his tenure as mayor, he has worked to restore the town's infrastructure and to tighten the local administration.
Iohannis is also widely credited with turning his hometown into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations thanks to the extensive renovation of the old downtown.[40] During his first term, Iohannis worked with a town council which was formed by PDSR/PSD, FDGR/DFDR, PD, CDR, and PRM.[41] Since , during his second and third terms, his own party, FDGR/DFDR, had the majority.
Between and , FDGR/DFDR had 14 out of 23 councillors, PDL 4, PSD 3, and PNL only 2.[42]
Iohannis established contacts with foreign officials and investors. Sibiu was declared the European Capital of Culture of , along with Luxembourg (the bearer of the distinction in ).[43] Luxembourg chose to share this honourable status with Sibiu due to the fact that many of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated in the 12th century to Transylvania from the area where Luxembourg is today.[44] Sibiu which was mainly built by the Transylvanian Saxons as early as the Middle Ages, was for many centuries the cultural centre of the German ethnic group in Transylvania, and was a predominantly German-speaking town until the mid 20th century.
Subsequently, many Germans left the town after World War II, and especially in , within months of the fall of the Iron Curtain.
On 7 November , Iohannis was nominated as the "Personality of the Year for a European Romania" (Romanian: Personalitatea anului pentru o Românie europeană) by the Eurolink – House of Europe organization.[45]
Candidacy for Prime Minister, with PSD support
On 14 October , the leaders of the opposition parliamentary groups (the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UMR), the Conservative Party (PC) led by Dan Voiculescu, and the group of smaller ethnic minorities), proposed Iohannis as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, after the government of PM Emil Boc fell a day before as a result of a motion of no confidence in the Parliament.
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Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian: [ˈ joˈhanis]; German: [ˈklaʊs joˈhanɪs]; born 13 June ) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the sixth president of Romania fromComing from outside the national-level politics of Romania, Iohannis had an image of an independent politician,[46] although his party (i.e. the FDGR/DFDR) consistently allied itself with, and Iohannis campaigned in the prior European Parliament elections for, the National Liberals (PNL).
Subsequently, the PNL, PSD, UDMR, and the small ethnic minorities group in the Parliament presented Iohannis as their common candidate for Prime Minister of an interim government.[47] On 14 October, Iohannis confirmed acceptance of his candidacy.
However, on 15 October, President Traian Băsescu nominated Lucian Croitoru, a top Romanian economist, as Prime Minister, and charged the latter with forming the country's next government.
After the second round of negotiations, a day before Croitoru's nomination, Băsescu noted: "Some parties have proposed Klaus Iohannis.
I would like you to know that I have not rejected the possibility for him to become Prime Minister, while my options would rather envisage other [national unity government] solutions. But I have rejected[dubious &#; discuss] such a proposal because it comes from PSD or another party [PNL]", referring to the alleged legal constraint of only considering a proposal presented by the largest parliamentary faction, at the time the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL), a constraint disputed by the other parties, along with insisting that given the financial and economic crisis at that time, a PM needs to have experience in that field.[48][49] The opposition criticized the President for not designating Iohannis.
Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoană accused Băsescu of trying to influence the upcoming presidential elections by having them organised by a sympathetic government.[50][51]Crin Antonescu, the leader of the National Liberals, vowed his party would derail other nominations but Iohannis'.[50] After the nomination of Croitoru, Antonescu, a candidate in the presidential election, stated that he would nominate Iohannis as prime minister if elected president.[52] Three days later, on 18 October, Geoană suggested Antonescu was trying to use Iohannis as an "electoral agent" for Antonescu's bid for president.
In response, Antonescu told the press that Iohannis "is not the type of person that would let himself be used".[53] Geoană and PSD leadership has held a second meeting with Iohannis in Bucharest in the evening of 18 October.
UDMR, which the previous day announced it would also attend, declared in the morning that all their leaders were not in the city. PNL was present at the meeting with lower level representatives, after Antonescu announced in the morning that he was campaigning in Cluj[54] On 21 October the Parliament adopted with votes in favor (PSD, PNL, UDMR, and minorities groups) and 2 against a declaration requesting the President to nominate Iohannis as Prime Minister.[55][56]
In the National Liberal Party (PNL)
On 20 February , Klaus Iohannis joined the PNL, announcing this during a press conference with Crin Antonescu.
At a PNL extraordinary congress, he was elected First Vice President of the Party. In the meeting of 28 June , he was elected President of the PNL with 95% of the votes.
Candidacy for the President of Romania
In , Iohannis had stated that he might possibly run for the office of President of Romania, although not in that year.[57] In addition, former Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu also stated on 27 October and again on 23 April that he would like to see Iohannis become either Prime Minister or President of Romania sometime in the future.[58]
PNL and PDL started in the summer of procedures to strengthen the political right.
The two parties will eventually merge under the name PNL, but went for elections in an alliance: the Christian Liberal Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Creștin-Liberală). On 11 August the alliance chose Iohannis as its candidate for the presidential election in November[59] and so he was registered as an official presidential candidate.
Klaus iohannis religie La 30 de ani de la Revoluția din Decembrie , pe 21 decembrie , Klaus Iohannis a preluat oficial cel de-al doilea mandat, depunând jurământul în fața Parlamentului României. Anul a reprezentat momentul în care România a intrat într-o nouă etapă, una de modernizare în spirit european.In a late August interview, Iohannis described himself as a politruk who candidates for the presidency of Romania.[60] He subsequently received % of the votes in the first round, finishing second and consequently qualifying for the second round. In the second round on 16 November he was elected President of Romania with % of the cast ballots.
| Presidential styles of Klaus Iohannis | |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Președintele (President) |
| Spoken style | Președintele (President) |
| Alternative style | Domnia Sa/Excelența Sa (His Excellency) |
Iohannis took office on 21 December , when Traian Băsescu's term ended.
His presidential campaign focused on fighting corruption and on improving the justice system.[61] Iohannis is also a supporter of a strongly pro-Western foreign policy.[62] Regarding the unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania, much discussed in the electoral campaign, Iohannis stated that "is something that only Bucharest can offer and only Chișinău can accept", and this "special relationship must be cultivated and enhanced especially by us [the Romanian state]".[63][64] Upon taking office, Iohannis suspended his membership within the National Liberal Party (PNL); the Romanian constitution does not allow the president to be a formal member of a political party during his tenure.
A heavily disputed draft law proposed by Nicolae Păun, leader of the Party of the Roma, regarding the amnesty of some misdemeanors and the pardoning of certain penalties was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies at the initiative of Klaus Iohannis and the party he led,[65] after PNL asked the Judiciary Committee 17 times to reject the draft law.[66]
The collaboration with socialist Prime Minister Victor Ponta was praised by both sides at the start of the mandate, but deteriorated thereafter once with foreign visits of the Head of the Executive, without informing the President, but especially with the criminal prosecution of Victor Ponta for 22 alleged corruption charges, prompting Iohannis to demand his resignation from the head of the Government.[67] Relations with Parliament went similarly.
Iohannis criticized the Parliament for defending MPs by rejecting the requests of the National Anticorruption Directorate for lifting their immunity, as in the case of PSD senator Dan Șova or Prime Minister Victor Ponta.[68] Regarding the judicial system, Klaus Iohannis pleads for a sustained fight against corruption. Likewise, Iohannis expressed dissatisfaction with attempted amendments to the Penal Code.[69] In the context of foreign policy, Iohannis and Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, created Bucharest Nine during a meeting between both in Bucharest on 4 November [70] The Russian annexation of Ukrainian Crimea and the country's intervention in the east of Ukraine are the main reason for the creation of the organization.
It has nine members, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.[71][72]
Since coming into office, President Klaus Iohannis has made a habit to hold consultations with parliamentary parties. The first round of consultations took place on 12 January, the purpose of these discussions being a political agreement that would ensure, by , a minimum threshold of 2% of GDP for the Ministry of Defence, agreement signed by all parties.[73] The second round of consultations focused on the legislative priorities of the parliamentary session: voting in diaspora, financing electoral campaigns and parties and lifting parliamentary immunity.
Because the Parliament has not implemented the commitments made on 28 January, Iohannis has organised another series of consultations on the state of electoral laws,[74] but also on rejection of Justice requests for approval of arrest or prosecution of MPs. The topics of other meetings between the president and parties focused on the Big Brother law package and the national defense strategy.[75]
In February , the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) sent a notice of evacuation of the headquarters of two TV stations owned by Dan Voiculescu, sentenced in August to 10 years imprisonment in a corruption case with 60 million euros worth of prejudice.[76] In this context, Klaus Iohannis stated that ANAF approach in Antena TV Group case is "hasty", "inappropriate" and that "freedom of expression in media can not be suppressed for trivial administrative reasons".[77] His position was met with a wave of criticism from supporters and public figures.[78][79] On the same note, Iohannis stated that union with Moldova is "a less serious approach" in the context of the Transnistria conflict, of differences between Romania and Moldova regarding economic stability and fighting corruption, and can be discussed when things are stable in both countries.[80] The statement sparked indignation among unionists[81] who accused him of demagogy, considering that during the electoral campaign of he expressed a favorable position on the issue.[82] In March , at the th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, he was absent from a plenary vote regarding the issue.[83]
President Iohannis is considered the primary responsible for the Romanian political crisis,[84][85][86][87] to the point that when asked in a CURS opinion poll from November , 35% of respondents said that he is the main culprit for the said crisis.[88] Critics consider him responsible for excluding the USR from the government during late , and thereby allowing the PSD to be brought back to power.[89] This happened on 25 November , when the National Coalition for Romania was founded and the Ciucă Cabinet was sworn in.[90][91][92] Two months later, he praised the new coalition, stating that "the Romanian political class has shown democratic maturity".[93] Iohannis has also been criticized given the fact that during the two ruling years of the PSD-ALDE coalition (more specifically between and ), he sharply criticized the PSD.
At the legislative elections, he called the electorate to vote, promising to get rid of the PSD.[94][95] Some public figures in Romania, who in the past expressed their support for Klaus Iohannis, have criticized him for his double standard and lack of proper governance. These critics include Vladimir Tismăneanu, Tudor Chirilă, Radu Paraschivescu, Mircea Cărtărescu, Andrei Oișteanu, Ada Solomon,[96]Marius Manole,[97]Cristian Tudor Popescu,[98] and Gabriel Liiceanu.[99] The coalition's rule has been described as being authoritarian,[]illiberal,[][]kleptocratic and corrupt.[][]
Despite the fact that, officially, the President of Romania is not affiliated with any political party, Iohannis is also regarded as the de facto current leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL).[][]
On 12 June , according to the protocol of the CNR, Nicolae Ciucă resigned.[] The next day, President Iohannis designated Marcel Ciolacu to be the next prime-minister.[] Ciucă became the President of the Romanian Senate on 13 June [] UDMR also withdrew from the coalition, after the National Liberals decided to take the Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration, which was held by UDMR in the Ciucă Cabinet.[][] On 15 June , the Parliament of Romania voted through the Ciolacu Cabinet.
Iohannis praised the PSD-PNL coalition again, saying that this new model implemented in Romanian politics, the government rotation, "has worked very well so far". He also declared that "the fact that today we are here to formalize the rotation of the prime ministers shows a new level of seriousness of the coalition".[] During the late part of Iohannis' presidency, especially during Ciucă's premiership, the freedom of the press in Romania declined, according to World Press Freedom Index (from in [] to in []).
Declaratie klaus iohannis biography Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian: [ˈ joˈhanis]; German: [ˈklaʊs joˈhanɪs]; born 13 June ) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the sixth president of Romania fromUnder Ciucă's premiership, Romania experienced democratic backsliding,[] with The Economist ranking it last in the European Union in the world terms of democracy,[] even behind Viktor Orbán's Hungary.[] The Economist's Democracy Index has also consistently placed Romania behind the African country of Botswana, which Iohannis had sarcastically lamented in a presidential campaign interview (at the time, Romania was 60th to Botswana's 20th) and prompted him to stress the need to "consolidate democracy."[16][]
On 12 March , Iohannis announced his candidacy for the post of Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), promising a "renewal of perspective" for the alliance and citing Romania's "deep understanding" of the situation created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He was expected to compete against outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte.[] Iohannis withdrew his candidacy on 20 June []
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| 11 January | &#;France | Paris | Solidarity March, in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris |
| 15–16 January | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Official visit to Brussels Meeting with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg |
| 10 February | &#;France | Paris | Official visit to France Talks with President François Hollande on French–Romanian relations, combating terrorism and Ukraine[] |
| 12 February | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council EPP Summit |
| 25 February | &#;Moldova | Chișinău | Official visit to the Republic of Moldova Meeting with President Nicolae Timofti. Talks with pro-European parties on bilateral relations and the process of European integration of Moldova[] |
| 26 February | &#;Germany | Berlin | Official visit to Germany Talks with German ChancellorAngela Merkel on the situation in Ukraine, investments, European projects and strengthening the rule of law[] Meeting with the German President |
| 12–13 March | &#;Poland | Warsaw | Official visit to Poland Talks with President Bronisław Komorowski on Ukraine, NATO and Moldova[] Meeting with the Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz |
| 17 March | &#;Ukraine | Kyiv | Official visit to Ukraine |
| 19–20 March | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council EPP Summit |
| 23 April | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Special meeting of the European Council |
| 27–28 April | &#;Italy | Rome | Official visit to Italy |
| 7 May | &#;Poland | Gdansk | Events to comemorate 70 years since the end of the Second World War |
| 14–15 May | &#;Italy | Milan, Rome | Meeting with Romanian community in Milan and Pope Francis[] Official visit to the Holy See Visit to the Romanian Pavilion at the World Expo in Milano |
| 21–22 May | &#;Latvia | Riga | Eastern Partnership Summit[] |
| 11 June | &#;Belgium | Brussels | UE-CELAC Summit |
| 15–16 June | &#;Croatia | Zagreb | Official visit to Croatia Meeting with President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Prime Minister Zoran Milanović and President of the SaborJosip Leko[] |
| 25–26 June | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 12–13 July | &#;Spain | Madrid | Official visit to Spain Meeting with King Felipe VI, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Romanian community representatives[][] |
| 16 July | &#;Serbia | Belgrade | Official visit to Serbia |
| 26 July | &#;Austria | Salzburg | Work meeting with the President of Austria, Heinz Fischer |
| 24–30 September | &#;United States | New York City, Washington, D.C. | Represented Romania at the United Nations General Assembly Met with the United States President Barack Obama and Vice-president Joe Biden[] |
| 23–24 September | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Special informal meeting of the European Council |
| 15–16 October | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 25 October | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Meeting organised by the European Commission on migration in the Western Balkans |
| 11–12 November | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Informal meeting of the European Council EU-Africa Summit |
| 18–19 November | &#;Slovakia | Bratislava | Official visit to Slovakia |
| 29 November | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Union – Türkiye Summit |
| 30 November | &#;France | Paris | United Nations Conference on Climate Change – COP21 |
| 11–13 February | &#;Germany | Munich | Munich Security Conference Meetings with the authorities of the Land of Bavaria |
| 18–20 February | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council EPP Summit |
| 7–9 March | &#;Israel | Jerusalem | State visit to the State of Israel |
| 10 March | &#;Palestine | Ramallah | State visit to the State of Palestine |
| 17–18 March | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council Working meeting between the EU leaders and the Prime Minister of Türkiye |
| 23–24 March | &#;Turkey | Ankara | State visit to Türkiye |
| 31 March–1 April | &#;United States | Washington D.C. | Nuclear Security Summit Meeting with the Romanian Community Visit to the Holocaust Museum Working Dinner at the White House hosted by US President Barack Obama |
| 1 May | &#;Afghanistan | Military base | Visiting the Romanian Troops deployed to Afghanistan |
| 18 May | &#;Lithuania | Vilnius | State visit to Lithuania |
| 6–7 June | &#;Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | Official visit to Luxembourg |
| 15–16 June | &#;Bulgaria | Sofia, Pordim, Giurgiu-Ruse, Grivița, Pleven | Official visit to Bulgaria |
| 28 June | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 8–9 July | &#;Poland | Warsaw | NATO Summit[] |
| 10 July | &#;Poland | Warsaw | Official visit to Poland |
| 9 September | &#;Germany | Berlin | Work meeting with Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Prime-Minister of Belgium, Charles Michel, and the Prime-Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel |
| 16 September | &#;Slovakia | Bratislava | Informal meeting of the European Council |
| 28 September | &#;Germany | Kiel | Receiving the Hermann Ehlers award, Hermann Ehlers Foundation |
| 30 September | &#;Israel | Jerusalem | International funerals of the former of the President of Israel, Shimon Peres |
| 20–21 October | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 15 December | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 24–25 January | &#;France | Strasbourg | Official visit to the Council of Europe, as well as the European Court of Human Rights[] |
| 3 February | &#;Malta | Valetta | Informal meeting of the European Council |
| 9–10 March | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 24–25 March | &#;Italy | Rome | Informal meeting of the European Council Celebration of 60 years since the Rome Treaties |
| 30 March | &#;Malta | Valetta | EPP Summit |
| 29 April | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 25 May | &#;Belgium | Brussels | NATO Leaders Reunion |
| 5–9 June | &#;United States | Washington D.C. | Visit to the United States Meeting at the White House with the President of the United States Joint press conference with United States President Donald Trump Meeting with the Romanian community Meetings with the American authorities |
| 19–20 June | &#;Germany | Berlin | Visit to Germany Meetings with the President of Germany and the Federal Chancellor Receiving the Semper Opera Ball Dresden Medal of St. George |
| 22–23 June | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 6 July | &#;Poland | Warsaw | The Three Seas Initiative Summit |
| 19–22 September | &#;United States | New York CityPhiladelphia | Represented Romania at the 72nd General Assembly of the United Nations Meeting with the Romanian Community |
| 28–29 September | &#;Estonia | Tallinn | Informal meeting of the European Council – Digital Summit |
| 19–20 October | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council EPP Summit |
| 17 November | &#;Sweden | Göteborg | Social Summit |
| 24 November | &#;Belgium | Brussels | European Council |
| 14–15 December | &#;Belgium | Brussels | Eastern Partnership Summit |
| 31 January | &#;Belgium |