Minister of Finance Florin Citu estimates inflation will go down below 2 per cent this year, in the context of a downward trend at present.
The National Bank of Romania has reduced the inflation forecast for the end of this year down to 2.8 from 3 per cent and for the next year, the central bank forecasts inflation of 2.5 per cent, compared with the previous estimates indicating inflation of 3.2 per cent.
Moreover, the Minister of Finance said the total amount earmarked for investments reaches 13 billion lei in the first five months of the year, the highest in the past 10 years.
"In April we already had 4.1 billion lei for investments - and in May 3.1 billion lei for investments, with the total amount invested in the first five months, 13 billion lei, being the highest amount spent in the first five months of the past decade. This means that even during the global economic crisis generated by the coronavirus this Government was still able to do the best thing, to find the money for investments," said Florin Citu.