2025 in Europe

This is a list of events that have taken or will take place in Europe in 2025.

Incumbents

European Union

• Presidency of the Council of the EU:
  • Poland (January–June)
  • Denmark (July–December)

Events

• 1 January
  • Poland assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Hungary.
  • Bulgaria and Romania complete the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls.^[1]
  • Liechtenstein becomes the 39th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.^[2]
  • Ukraine halts the transportation of Russian gas supplies through the country, following the expiration of a five-year transit deal.^[3]
  • Ukraine becomes a state party in the International Criminal Court.^[4]

• 3 January
  • United Kingdom is under multiple weather warnings, such as an amber warning for snow in northern England and a yellow ice warning in Scotland, followed with a yellow snow warning on Sunday, 5 January also for Scotland.
• 8 January–2 February – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship is held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.^[5]
• 12 January – 2024–25 Croatian presidential election (second round): Incumbent president Zoran Milanović wins a second term in office with 74% of the vote.^[6]
• 30 January – The 2025 Southeast Europe retail boycotts occur, over inflation.

• 9 February – 2025 Liechtenstein general election is held.
• 9 February – 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election is held.
• 23 February – 2025 German federal election is held.
• 26 February – In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a court in Sarajevo convicts Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, for disobeying the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and sentences him to one year's imprisonment and a ban on engaging in political activities for six years.^[7]
• 1 March – In Romania, tens of thousands gather at an AUR protest in Bucharest in support of Călin Georgescu and against the annulment of the 2024 Romanian presidential election.^[8]
• 8 March–17 March – 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin.^[9]
• 9 March – The Romanian Central Electoral Bureau rejects Călin Georgescu's candidacy for the 2025 Romanian presidential election, citing his failure to comply with electoral regulations that contributed to the annulment of the 2024 Romanian presidential election.^[10][11]
• 15 March – The Romanian Central Electoral Bureau rejects Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă's candidacy for the 2025 Romanian presidential election. She becomes the second Far Right candidate to be excluded from running.^[12][13]
• 27 March – 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack
• 31 March – In France, Marine Le Pen from the National Rally (RN) is banned from running for political office for five years, meaning she cannot stand in the 2027 French presidential election.^{[14][15][16][17]}
• April 9 –
  • In Germany, The CDU announces a coalition agreement with the SPD at the federal level.^[18]
  • The Alternative for Germany AfD finishes as the leading party for the first time in opinion polling.^[19]
• April 14 – The Hungarian Parliament passes constitutional amendments outlawing public events by the LGBTQ+ community.^[20] The amendments will also protect the "right to use cash", and mandate the existence of only two genders (male or female).^[21][22]
• May 2 – The Gtrman Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution designates the German Alternative for Germany AfD party as a right-wing extremist organisation.^[23]
• May 5 – The AfD sues the Federal Office for the Protection of Constitution, accusing it of violating the German constitution by trying to prosecute AfD for statements which are considered freedom of speech and legitimate criticism of German immigration policies.^[24][25]
• 6 to 12 May – 2025 papal conclave will be held.
• May 20 – the Hungarian National Assembly approves a bill to initiate the country's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), making Hungary the first European Union member state to take such action.^[26][27]
• 11 May – 2025 Albanian parliamentary election was held.
• 4/18 May – 2025 Romanian presidential election was held.
• 18 May – 2025 Polish presidential election was held.

Scheduled and confirmed events

• 8 September – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election will be held.
• 28 September – 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election will be held
• 3/4 October – 2025 Czech parliamentary election will be held.
• 27 October – 2025 Irish presidential election will be held.
• 29 October – 2025 Dutch general election will be held.

Deaths

January

• January 2 - Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian artistic gymnast (b. 1921)

See also

• Europe portal
• 2020s portal

• 2025 in the European Union
• 2025 in politics and government