2003 in Romania

Events from the year 2003 in Romania.

Incumbents

• President: Ion Iliescu
• Prime Minister: Adrian Năstase

Events

February

• 5 February – The new labour code is published in the Monitorul Oficial.
• 14 February – The remains of Carol II and of his wife, Magda Lupescu, are repatriated from Portugal and placed inside the Curtea de Argeș Cathedral.

March

• 1 March – The new labour code enters force.

May

• 24 May – The Democratic Party celebrates its 10 year anniversary in Constanța without its founder, Petre Roman.

October

• 18–19 October – The 2003 Romanian constitutional referendum takes place.

Births

July

• 11 July – Costin Amzăr, footballer.
• 26 July – Luca Andronache, footballer.

Deaths

May

• 15 May – Constantin Dăscălescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1923)

September

• 9 September – Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.

October

• 4 October – Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.
• 12 October – Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.

November

• 22 November – Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).

See also

• 2003 in Europe
• Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

References

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