A year earlier, the EU inflation was 2%, the data showed.
Romanian annual inflation came in at 4.3% in August, down from 4.9% a month earlier. The lowest annual rates were observed in Ireland (1%), Slovenia (1.2%) and Greece (1.4%), and the highest in Estonia (5.6%), Latvia (4.6%) and the United Kingdom (4.5%).
The lowest 12-month averages up to August were registered in Ireland (0.4%), Sweden (1.6%), the Czech Republic and Slovenia (both 1.9%), and the highest in Romania (7.3%) and Estonia (5.1%).
Romanian consumer prices fell 0.3% in August compared with July. EU’s monthly inflation was 0.2%.
Annual inflation in the 16 states that use the euro was 2.5% in August, unchanged on the month. A year earlier, eurozone’s rate was 1.6%.