On July 31, international credit rating agency Fitch Ratings reaffirmed Romania’s BBB- credit rating, keeping the country at the lowest level considered safe for international investment. Maintaining its current rating helps preserve investor confidence, avoids the higher borrowing costs that often follow a downgrade, and prevents it from falling into non-investment territory. Seeking to calm market anxieties and public fatigue, President Dan urged international investors and Romanian citizens to “distinguish between political action and political noise”. Romania’s fiscal trajectory is tightly linked to European legal and financial mechanisms. Under Romania’s Fiscal Responsibility Law (Law No.