Prime minister Nicolae Ciucă names Dragoș-Cristian Vlad to head the Authority for the Digitisation of Romania (Romanian: Autoritatea pentru Digitalizarea României).
The Treaty between Romania and the Kingdom of Thailand regarding the transfer of sentenced persons and cooperation in applying sentences (Romanian: Tratatul între România și Regatul Thailandei privind transferarea persoanelor condamnate și cooperarea în executarea pedepselor), that was signed in Romanian, Thai and English on 25 September 2019 in New York, is ratified.
The Agreement for the Termination of Bilateral Investment Treaties between the Member States of the European Union is ratified.
11 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The National Institute of Public Health (INSP) announces that all criteria for nationwide community transmission of the Omicron variant were met.
A police car hits two girls aged 11 and 13, respectively, who were crossing a street in Sector 1 of Bucharest. The 13-year-old died.
COVID-19 pandemic: The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) adopts Decision no. 3/2022, which lets schools operate in-person—regardless of their vaccination rate and the locality's incidence rate—as long as the grade of occupation of hospital beds reserved for COVID-19 patients (in the school's county) stays below 75%.
A law that marks the National Day of Cancer Survivors (Romanian: Ziua Națională a Supraviețuitorilor de Cancer) on the first Sunday of each June is promulgated by president Klaus Iohannis.
14 January – The president promulgates a law marking the National Reading Day (Romanian: Ziua națională a lecturii) on 15 February, meant for publicly encouraging reading.
20 January – General strike at Societatea de Transport București (STB) leads to metro crowding and traffic jam in Bucharest, while the STB fleet of buses, trolleybuses and trams remains unused. The strike continued despite being suspended by the Bucharest Court.
28 January – Marcel Boloș [ro] was sworn in as Minister of Digitalisation for the Ciucă Cabinet. He succeeded Florin Roman, who resigned over a month prior.
President Klaus Iohannis recalls several ambassadors and permanent representatives: Ion Jinga (United Nations), Răzvan-Victor Rusu (permanent representative at the Council of Europe), Adrian Cosmin Viverița (permanent representative to United Nations Office at Geneva), Cristian-Leon Țurcanu (Ukraine), Daniel Ioniță (Moldova), Iulian Buga (Sweden), Sorin Vasile Moldovan (Turkmenistan), Florin Marius Tacu (Singapore), Adrian Măcelaru (UAE and Bahrain) and Mihail Constantin Coman (Oman).
Mayor of Iași Mihai Chirica is suspended for 60 days after the National Anticorruption Directorate has started prosecuting him. Deputy mayor Daniel Juravle is granted mayor status.
3 February – COVID-19 pandemic: The CNSU decides to prolong the state of alert for 30 days, effective on 7 February.
The Iași Court (Romanian: Tribunalul Iași) reverts Mihai Chirica's suspension from being mayor of Iași.
21 February – The Chamber of Deputies (Romania) votes on a bill for terminating the Section for Investigating Criminal Offences within the Judiciary [ro] (Romanian: Secția pentru Investigarea Infracțiunilor din Justiție, SIIJ) with 250 votes in favour, 90 against and an abstention.
28 February – The Senate votes on the bill that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies for dismantling the SIIJ with 86 votes in favour, 37 against and one abstention. USR and AUR proposed amendments that were rejected.
The justices of the Constitutional Court unaninmously reject the objections of unconstitutionality of USR, AUR and PSD regarding the law for dismantling the SIIJ, thus declaring it constitutional.
COVID-19 pandemic: The state of alert, initially decreed in May 2020 due to the pandemic, was lifted.
President Klaus Iohannis promulgates the law meant to dismantle the Section for Investigating Criminal Offences within the Judiciary.
30 March – Education in Romania – Education minister, Sorin Cîmpeanu, announces the change of the structure of pre-university year school years into 5 modules and 5 vacations, thus scrapping semesters.
April
5 April – The president promulgates a law initiated by liberal members of parliament declaring Vasile Lucaciu a "Hero of the Romanian Nation" (Romanian: Erou al Națiunii Române).
29 April – 2022 cyberattacks on Romania: At 04:05 EEST, a DDOS attack is launched against www.mapn.ro, the website of the Ministry of National Defence (Romanian: Ministerul Apărării Naționale, MApN). As of 09:24 EEST, the websites of the Government (Romanian: Guvernul României) – gov.ro, Ministry of National Defence – mapn.ro, Border Police (Romanian: Poliția de Frontieră Română) – politiadefrontiera.ro and CFR Călători – cfrcalatori.ro had been taken down by DDOS attacks, with the website of the Romanian Government being restored in the meantime. As of 10:20 EEST, CFR Călători has issued alternative means of purchasing train tickets online. At 19:30 EEST, the website of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) – psd.ro had been also taken down. Behind the attack was believed to be a pro-Kremlin hacking group.
5 June – The National Day of Cancer Survivors (Romanian: Ziua Națională a Supraviețuitorilor de Cancer) is marked for the first time. Victoria Palace is lighten up for two hours, between 21:00 EEST and 23:00 EEST with a yellow water lily.
1 July – The emergency ordinance compensating fuel providers with 25 bani/litre for selling fuel costing 50 bani/litre less than the normal price between 1 July and 30 September enters force.
8 July – Petre Daea [ro] becomes minister of agriculture.
14 July – The president promulgates a law that establishes the "National day of the sport with the oval ball" (Romanian: Ziua națională a sportului cu balonul oval) on 4 May, that would be marked by the Romanian Rugby Federation.
21 July – The president promulgates a law establishing the National Museum of the Anticommunist Revolution from December 1989 (Romanian: Muzeul Național al Revoluției Anticomuniste din Decembrie 1989), that is set to be headquartered in Timișoara, subordinated to the Ministry of Culture.
August
10 August – Declic, an association, organizes a protest in Victory Square named "10 August – We won't forgive and we won't forget" (Romanian: 10 august - Nu uităm și nu iertăm) to mark four years since a protest on 10 August 2018 and urges the investigation on the violence from that protest to be sped up. Prime minister Nicolae Ciucă makes remarks on the protest's fourth year anniversary, saying that the Coalition would never allow protests to degenerate to such violence and that the government would be providing all that is necessary for the case investigating the protests on 10 August 2018 to be concluded.
22 August – Robert Negoiță, mayor of Sector 3 and Sorin Cîmpeanu, the minister of education, are amused by a "Puie Monta" message they see inside a preschool they had just inaugurated.
28 August – Sorin Cîmpeanu tells Digi24 that the "Puie Monta" message inside the preschool was inappropriate and that nobody knows who made it.
September
26 September – Romanian journalist Emilia Șercan reveals that education minister Sorin Cîmpeanu plagiarised in a 2006 paper authored by him.
15 November – The Bucharest Court of Appeal (Romanian: Curtea de Apel București) extends the deadline for the Brăila Bridge by 193 days and forces the Romanian CNAIR (Romanian: Compania Națională de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere) to pay 28,808,369.4 Romanian lei to Italian contractor Webuild for delays. It also needs to pay Webuild a sum worth 576,167.4 lei for the trial.
5 December – Gemma Webb is appointed head of the RetuRO Directorate (Romanian: Directoratul RetuRO), a government recycling mechanism.
8 December – Over 1300 negative comments are written on the Facebook page of Austrian embassy in Romania, following the opposition of Austrian officials on the same day to greenlight Romania into entering the Schengen Area.
9 December – The ambassador of Romania in Austria, Emil Hurezeanu, was summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for consultations, following the opposition of Romania's bid to enter the Schengen Area on December 8 from the Austrian minister of home affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned in a press statement that the decision to summon Hurezeanu was taken as an act of disproval of the conduct of Austrian diplomacy.
13 December – President Klaus Iohannis meets with European Union ambassadors in Romania, for an annual meeting with them, at the Athénée Palace Hilton hotel, starting at 11:00 EET. Among the tackled topics are the extension of the European Union, the war in Ukraine, the problems faced by the Republic of Moldova and the Schengen Area situation of Romania. The ambassador of Austria in Romania, Adelheid Folie, is absent from the meeting. Instead, a deputy of the Austrian embassy in Romania, Georg Oberreiter, shows up at the talks. The Austrian chargé d'affaires, the aforementioned deputy appointed by her, tells the Romanian press that she didn't make it to the meeting due to being on a long vacation. Later that day, a press release of the Austrian embassy signed by Oberreiter mentions that Folie would be returning to work after Christmas, as she is undergoing a surgery planned long before the meeting with EU ambassadors.
Ambassador of Turkey in Romania, Füsun Aramaz, pays Romanian minister of foreign affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, a visit, as her ambassador term comes to an end.
15 December – Subsection 1, Sibiu - Boița, of the Sibiu - Pitești section of the A1 motorway is opened to the traffic on 15:00 EET. It is 13.17 kilometres long.
28 December – The Government assents 35 localities and places to local interest resort status (Romanian: stațiune turistică de interes local).
29 December – Authorities from the Romanian DIICOT detain Internet personality and former kickboxer Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan, and two other individuals on charges relating to human trafficking and forming an organised crime group.
31 July – Silvian Ciupercă, 73, Romanian politician, former mayor of Țăndărei (1996–2000), deputy (2000–2004) and former president of the county council of Ialomița (2004-2015).
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