1998 in Romania
Romania-related events from the year 1998
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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
Events
January
- 18 January – Baia de Arieș is granted town status.[1]
March
- 30 March – Victor Ciorbea resigns from being prime minister. Gavril Dejeu replaces him as acting prime minister.[2]
April
- 2 April – President Emil Constantinescu appoints Radu Vasile to be the new prime minister.[3]
- 15 April – The Parliament grants the investiture vote to the Radu Vasile Cabinet[4] with 317 votes in favour and 124 against.[3]
- 17 April – The Vasile Cabinet takes its oath of office.[3]
October
- 26 October – The Romanian Supreme Court rehabilitates a member of Ion Antonescu's World War II-era Axis government, Toma Ghițulescu.[5]
Undated
- Euroinstal company is founded in Timișoara.[6]
- Radu Dinulescu, "the Eichmann of Romania", is rehabilitated by the Romanian Supreme Court.[7]
Births
- 2 October – Robert Asăvoaei, footballer.[8]
Deaths
- 9 January – Lia Manoliu, discus thrower and Olympian (b. 1932).[9]
- 1 July – Dumitru Berciu, historian and archaeologist (b. 1907).[10]
- 31 July – Ioan Ploscaru, bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church (b. 1911).[11]
- 1 October – Gabriel Sandu, football player (b. 1952).[12]
- 8 October – Anatol Vieru, music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer (b. 1926).[13]
- 14 October – Leopoldina Bălănuță actress (b. 1934).[14]
- 23 October – Silviu Stănculescu, actor (b. 1932).[15]
- 13 November – Ilie Văduva, communist politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1986 (b. 1934).[16]
- 2 December – Cleopa Ilie abbot (b. 1912).[17]
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.[18]
- 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.[19] The latter was greater than the Ceaușescu-era peak of $10.2 billion in 1981.[20]
- 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%).[21]
See also
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References
- ^ Website of the Baia de Arieș town hall (in Romanian)
- ^ "Băsescu, în 1998: Ciorbea este un "biet profitor"". Adevărul (in Romanian). 27 October 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ a b c "Guvernele României \ GUVERNUL RADU VASILE". Rompres (in Romanian). 11 February 2007. Archived from the original on 11 February 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Emil Constantinescu îl acuză pe Radu Vasile". BBC Romanian (in Romanian). 24 August 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ Henry F. Carey, Lexington Books, 2004, Romania Since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society, p. 75
- ^ "Continuă igienizarea pe cursurile râurilor din Banat! Au fost adunate tone de deșeuri până acum". gazetadinvest.ro. 21 June 2019.
- ^ [Alexandru Florian, Indiana University Press, Jan 24, 2018, Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania, pp. 73 and 102]
- ^ Robert Asăvoaei at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- ^ Frank Litsky (11 January 1998). "Lia Manoliu, 65, Olympian And Romanian Sports Figure". The New York Times. p. 1 28. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "Dumitru Berciu". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Arhiepiscopul Ioan Ploscaru". www.bru.ro (in Romanian). Romanian Greek Catholic Church. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Gabriel Sandu at WorldFootball.net
- ^ Anderson, Martin (28 October 1998). "Obituary: Anatol Vieru". The Independent. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Șchiopu, Ana-Maria (15 October 2019). "Portret Leopoldina Bălănuță, tragica doamnă a teatrului cu voce de înger: "Cea mai mare nefericire e să n-ai nevoie de cultură"". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Dobrescu, Petre (23 October 2011). "Se împlinesc 13 ani de la moartea actorului Silviu Stănculescu". Libertatea (in Romanian). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Dobre, Florica, ed. (2004). Membrii C. C. al P. C. R.: 1945–1989 (PDF) (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică. pp. 608–609. ISBN 973-45-0486-X.
- ^ "Cleopa Ilie". www.poezie.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ OECD Publishing, Sep 29, 2000, OECD Review of Agricultural Policies: Romania 2000, p. 33
- ^ OECD Publishing, Sep 29, 2000, OECD Review of Agricultural Policies: Romania 2000, p. 33
- ^ Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova, Wydawnictwo UJ, 2009, Gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economic Relation between neutral and Socialist States in Cold War Europe, p. 111
- ^ OECD Publishing, Oct 29, 2002, OECD Economic Surveys: Romania 2002, p. 66
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