The seasonally-adjusted gross domestic product was down 0.1% quarter-on-quarter, but it was up 0.8% compared with January-March 2011.
In unadjusted data, Romania’s GDP was up 0.3% on the year in the first quarter.
Thus, Romania’s economy slid back into recession as it was the second consecutive quarter of GDP contraction. In the fourth quarter of 2011, the country’s GDP shrank by 0.2% in seasonally adjusted data compared with a quarter earlier, but was up 1.9% from the same period of 2010.