The country’s gross domestic product expanded by 1.6% on the quarter in July through September, well above the EU average growth of 0.2%, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said in a flash estimate.
Compared with the third quarter of 2012, Romanian economy grew 4.1% in January through September, also the largest increase across the bloc. The EU average growth rate was 0.1%.
The eurozone economies increased at an average quarterly rate of 0.1% in the July-September period. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP fell by 0.4% in the euro area, the data showed.