Eurostat: Romania registers economic growth of 5.6 pct, the highest from EU in Q1

Romania registered an economic growth of 5.6 percent, the highest from EU in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period of last year, according to the data correlated with seasonal variations published this Thursday by the European Office for Statistics Eurostat.

On annual basis, Romania’s GDP rose by 1.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, followed by Latvia (1.6 percent), Slovenia (1.5 percent) and Lithuania (1.4 percent). The lowest increase was registered by UK (0.2 percent).

Euro zone’s GDP increased by 0.6 percent in the first quarter of this year. Compared with the first quarter of 2016, the Euro zone’s GDP went up by 1.9 percent and the EU’s GDP climbed by 2.1 percent.