The country had foreign currency inflows of EUR1.64 billion and outflows of EUR1.106 billion in December, the data showed.

Romania’s gold reserve remained steady at 103.7 metric tons and its value adjusted for international gold price stood at EUR3.735 billion end-December compared with EUR3.599 billion at the end of November.

Overall international reserves stood at EUR36.8 billion end-December, from EUR36.13 billion end-November.

Payments due on public and publicly guaranteed external debt in January 2019 amount to EUR1.037 billion.