Ministry

Ministerul Afacerilor Externe

Foreign policy, diplomacy and Romania's international relations.

Leadership, as the ministry's site lists it

Who leads it now

Read from the ministry's leadership page on 1 Nov 2026. The names and posts are as printed there; a post with no name on the page is not here. The dates beside a name are the page's own; we only see who is listed at each reading, so whoever disappears from the page is shown below.

The minister

Sebastian Dănuț NeculăescuMinistrul afacerilor externe · 20 octombrie 2026

State secretaries

Ana Cristina TincaSecretar de stat · 23 februarie 2024
Clara StaicuSecretar de stat · iunie 2024
Clara-Alexandra VolintiruSecretar de stat · decembrie 2025

The secretary general

Felix ZahariaSecretar general · 16 ianuarie 2026

No longer on the page (2)

Oana-Silvia ȚoiuMinistrul afacerilor externe · 23 iunie 2025 · last seen on 18 Oct 2026
Luca NiculescuSecretar de stat · 1 septembrie 2022 · last seen on 18 Oct 2026

Diplomatic missions

Romania's ambassadors

Ambassadors by country, with each flag

Ambassadors are appointed and recalled by decrees of the President. The decrees hold 756 appointments and 528 recalls, from 1990 on. The page by country shows, for each, who is named now and who was before. A decree does not say who sits in the embassy today, so "now" means the last person named, with no recall or successor after.

The latest decrees

9 Sept 2026Theodora-Magdalena Mircea · Appointedambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Haiti, cu reședința la Havana755/2026
17 Feb 2026Ștefan-Alexandru Tinca · Recalledambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Republica Turcia121/2026
17 Feb 2026Răduța Dana Matache · Recalledambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Republica Filipine120/2026
17 Feb 2026Radu-Cătălin Mardare · Recalledambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Republica Libaneză119/2026
17 Feb 2026Sorin-Dan Mihalache · Recalledambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Republica Cipru118/2026
15 Sept 2025Marius-Gabriel Lazurcă · Recalledambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Statele Unite Mexicane, precum și din calitatea de ambasador extraordinar și plenipotențiar al României în Republica Nicaragua, în Republica …919/2025

How the institution changed

This portfolio has been held by different institutions. Policy continuity is shown separately from each ministry’s legal existence.

Ministerul Afacerilor ExterneOfficial act

25 Nov 2021 — present

Foreign affairs

The state budget

The ministry's money

All ministries, by year

How much the ministry got from the state budget in each year and what share of that year's whole budget it is. These are the amounts of the budget voted for the year (the budget credits, from every source), not actual spending; "of GDP" relates them to the year's gross domestic product, so that years are comparable. The name is the one the budget gives that year.

State budget by year: Ministerul Afacerilor Externe
Year	Amount	Of the budget	Of GDP
2025	1.47 bn lei	0.3%	0.08%
2024	1.34 bn lei	0.3%	0.08%
2023	1.31 bn lei	0.4%	0.08%
2022	1.24 bn lei	0.4%	0.09%
2021	1.14 bn lei	0.4%	0.10%
2020	1.09 bn lei	0.5%	0.10%
2019	1.1 bn lei	0.5%	0.10%
2018	944 m lei	0.5%	0.10%
2017	779 m lei	0.5%	0.09%
2016	759 m lei	0.5%	0.10%
2015	687 m lei	0.4%	0.10%
2014	673 m lei	0.5%	0.10%

What the money goes to in 2025

The parts of the ministry's amount this year; the percentage is of the ministry's amount, not of the whole budget.

On what (type of spending)

Staff costs570 m lei (38.8%)
Goods and services505 m lei (34.3%)
Other transfers240 m lei (16.3%)
Non-financial assets70 m lei (4.8%)
Projects financed by post-accession non-reimbursable external funds61 m lei (4.2%)
Transfers between public administration units20 m lei (1.4%)
Other expenditure3.5 m lei (0.2%)

For what (the field)

Public authorities and external actions1.42 bn lei (96.3%)
Culture, recreation and religion41 m lei (2.8%)
Education13 m lei (0.9%)

Where the money comes from

The state budget1.46 bn lei (99.2%)
Own revenue10 m lei (0.7%)
Non-reimbursable external funds1.2 m lei (<0.1%)

Ministerial history

24 periods · 19 people · 8 sat in Parliament while in office

The periods come from the President's decrees (appointment, dismissal, resignation, acting posts), and the title is the decree's: the same ministry has gone by different names over the years. Where today's ministry was several ministries (industry, commerce, tourism), their ministers appear side by side. A government whose naming decree is not in the catalog is not here.

20 Oct 2026— present

Sebastian-Dănuț NeculăescuCurrent

Ministrul afacerilor externe · Government Niculescu