1998 in Romania

Events from the year 1998 in Romania.

Incumbents

 * President of Romania: Emil Constantinescu
 * Prime Minister of Romania:
 * until 30 March: Victor Ciorbea
 * 30 March–17 April: Gavril Dejeu (interim)
 * starting 17 April: Radu Vasile

January

 * 18 January – Baia de Arieș is granted town status.

March

 * 30 March – Victor Ciorbea resigns from being prime minister. Gavril Dejeu replaces him as acting prime minister.

April

 * 2 April – President Emil Constantinescu appoints Radu Vasile to be the new prime minister.
 * 15 April – The Parliament grants the investiture vote to the Radu Vasile Cabinet with 317 votes in favour and 124 against.
 * 17 April – The Vasile Cabinet takes its oath of office.

October

 * 26 October – The Romanian Supreme Court rehabilitates a member of Ion Antonescu's World War II-era Axis government, Toma Ghițulescu.

Undated

 * Euroinstal company is founded in Timișoara.
 * Radu Dinulescu, "the Eichmann of Romania", is rehabilitated by the Romanian Supreme Court.

Births

 * 2 October – Robert Asăvoaei, footballer.

Deaths

 * 9 January – Lia Manoliu, discus thrower and Olympian (b. 1932).
 * 1 July – Dumitru Berciu, historian and archaeologist (b. 1907).
 * 31 July – Ioan Ploscaru, bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church (b. 1911).
 * 1 October – Gabriel Sandu, football player (b. 1952).
 * 8 October – Anatol Vieru, music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer (b. 1926).
 * 14 October – Leopoldina Bălănuță actress (b. 1934).
 * 23 October – Silviu Stănculescu, actor (b. 1932).
 * 13 November – Ilie Văduva, communist politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1986 (b. 1934).
 * 2 December – Cleopa Ilie abbot (b. 1912).

Economic data for 1998

 * Romania's 1998 nominal GDP was the country's largest throughout the 1990s, and the only one in the decade to exceed $40 billion.
 * 1998 was the first year in Romania's post-Communist history when the country's external debt decreased, down to $9.7 billion from $10.4 billion in 1997. The latter was greater than the Ceaușescu-era peak of $10.2 billion in 1981.
 * 1998 was the last year in which the state had a majority share in any of Romania's main economic sectors: industrial output (54%), exports (51.1%), imports (51.7%) and investment (59.5%).