Summary
CPD’s latest Institutional Radar maps how Romania’s core public institutions were discussed across digital media (news sites, Facebook, YouTube) in June–August 2025. The summer months brought a layered picture of institutional attention. Fiscal debates, but also indirect political associations kept the tax authority in the spotlight, judicial bodies remained central through high-profile rulings and investigations, while security institutions surfaced in connection with speculation about leadership changes and symbolic events.
The National Tax Agency (ANAF) set the pace: tax debates and the institution’s political entanglements (the investigation around former vice-PM Anastasiu) kept the instition’s name in front on both visibility and impact.
Justice stayed close behind. Anti-corruption actions and constitutional rulings sustained steady attention, with DNA prominent through high-profile investigations and CCR visible around appointments and decisions. CSM and ICCJ surfaced when pension disputes and leadership changes became newsworthy.
National security institutions moved unevenly. SRI’s presence was tied to updates on former president Ion Iliescu’s health and passing (in a hospital associated with the institution), plus speculation about leadership; SIE and the Army featured more sporadically, anchored in appointment talk and ceremonial moments.
At the quieter end, the Presidency, the Senate and the Office of the Ombudsman appeared less often in mainstream discussion, reflecting a subdued communication footprint in this interval.
On the distribution side, central newsrooms still carry the flow, yet local media visibly amplify stories involving police and justice. Only a few institutions regularly cut through via their own Facebook pages.
Methodologically, the findings rely on structured social-listening queries that track official names and common variants across news sites and major social platforms, comparing how often institutions are mentioned with the scale of potential audience exposure.
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