King Felipe VI of Spain Photo: Pool / Zuma Press / Profimedia
King Felipe VI of Spain landed on Monday night at the International Airport in Sibiu. He is to meet President Nicușor Dan at the NATO Military Unit in Cincu, writes the local publication Tower.
According to BoardingPass sources, President Nicușor Dan will fly on Tuesday morning from Bucharest to Sibiu with a C-27J Spartan military transport plane.
On Tuesday, the king will go to Cincu, where the Spanish military who participates in NATO missions, to ensure the Security on the Eastern Flank are dislocated. In Cincu he will meet Nicușor Dan.
After meeting with the Spanish official, the President of Romania will fly from Sibiu to the airport in Chisinau, and on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, he will return to Bucharest.
The first visit of a foreign official from the mandate of Nicușor Dan
The visit takes place in a context of bilateral cooperation between Romania and Spain, consolidated including through military collaboration within NATO. It will be the first visit to Romania of a high state official since taking over the mandate of president by Nicușor Dan.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia were also in Romania in 2009, then as princely of Asturia. Also, Romania was also visited by the former monarchs of Spain, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia, in 1978 and 2003.
Felipe VI was proclaimed king on June 19, 2014, with the promise of a “renovated monarchy” and for a “new Spain”. The king has the ranks of general, captain of the army, the navy and the air forces, the highest military degree that corresponds exclusively to that of the supreme commander of the armed forces.
