Trust in the justice system in Romania remains in the middle band of the EU reference system
Bucharest – In Romania, trust in justice continues to align with the average of European countries, according to European measurements conducted for the year 2025 (EU Justice Scoreboard and Eurobarometer on businesses’ perception of the independence of national justice systems in the EU published in July), the Superior Council of Magistracy reported on Thursday.
Thus, among companies, the perception of the independence of the justice system is positive at a rate of 51%, similar to that of 2024 (52%), placing Romania alongside France (53%) and ahead of countries such as Greece (49%), Italy (48%), Spain (40%), Hungary (38%), Portugal (32%), and Bulgaria (27%).
Regarding companies’ trust in the courts’ ability to guarantee investment security, this “extremely important” indicator for Romania’s accession process to the OECD is positive at a rate of 58%, placing Romania in a group of seven states where this indicator is close to the 60% mark, namely France (62%), Czech Republic (61%), Belgium (60%), Lithuania (59%), Germany (58%), Italy (58%) and ahead of states such as Portugal (44%), Poland (39%) or Greece (28%).
As for citizens’ perception, this indicator stands at 44%, keeping Romania in the middle band of EU countries, immediately after France (51%) and Italy (46%) and ahead of states such as Spain (39%), Greece (38%), Croatia (27%) or Bulgaria (27%).
“From this perspective, it is necessary to consider the context of the extreme polarization of Romanian society during the presidential campaign, through the annulment and reorganization of the election and through the constant and successive blame placed on the Constitutional Court and the classical justice system for the conduct of those elections,” specifies the Superior Council of Magistracy.
Regarding European measurements concerning the position of the justice system at the national level in 2025, among other institutions, the indicators of the justice system described above (58%, 51%, and 44%) relate to a trust level of 31% for Parliament, 34% for Government, and 26% for the press.
The Superior Council of Magistracy concludes that, “despite constant contrary claims in the public space, it is observed, from objective evaluations, that trust in the justice system remains in the middle band of the European Union’s reference system, in the exceptional national context of the annulment of the presidential elections, with an unprecedented polarization of Romanian society.” (24.7.2025)
