{"id":9993,"date":"2026-05-04T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:01:17","slug":"romanian-currency-hits-new-record-low-amid-ongoing-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9993","title":{"rendered":"Romanian currency hits new record low amid ongoing political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s currency weakened further on Monday, May 4, with the exchange rate reaching a new historic low of RON 5.199 per EUR, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnr.ro\/583-euro\" target=\"_blank\">National Bank<\/a>. The latest figure marks a sharp increase from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romanian-currency-record-low-euro-april-2026\" target=\"_blank\">RON 5.14 per EUR at the end of last week<\/a>, highlighting mounting pressure on the national currency.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two weeks, the RON has depreciated by around 2%, after remaining relatively stable at RON 5.09 per EUR since the beginning of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/zf-24\/bnr-afiseaza-luni-un-nou-maxim-istoric-cursul-valutar-urcand-la-5-23143578\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts link the volatility to the ongoing political crisis triggered by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) exiting the government and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/no-confidence-motion-backed-over-half-mps-2026\" target=\"_blank\">filing a no-confidence motion<\/a> alongside the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR). The motion is scheduled to be debated and voted on in the Parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On interbank markets, the exchange rate hovered around RON 5.19 per EUR, briefly exceeding RON 5.2 at the end of last week and again early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record had been set roughly one year ago, on May 8, 2025, when the RON hit 5.12 per EUR following the resignation of then-prime minister Marcel Ciolacu.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Ruletkka\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s currency weakened further on Monday, May 4, with the exchange rate reaching a new historic low of RON 5.199 per EUR, according to the National Bank. The latest figure marks a sharp increase from RON 5.14 per EUR at the end of last week, highlighting mounting pressure on the national currency. Over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}