PM Tudose: Next year Romania might record economic growth of more than 6 percent

Prime Minister Mihai Tudose maintains that next year Romania could record an economic growth of over 6 percent, considering that the current year will close with the same percentage. 

"I believe next year, if we are to close this year with an economic growth of , I hope, six [percent], around six, overall per year, so next year it will be higher than six," Mihai Tudose told Thursday night at private TV broadcaster Antena 3. 

At the moderator's remark that according to the estimates of the European Commission the projected growth for Romania will be "four something", Tudose replied: "Mister, remember the Commission's estimates at the beginning of the year? Much worse." 

"Do you remember that (...) I told you about a discussion with the International Monetary Fund? Not with the very Fund but with its representatives here, who were preaching a painful death and similarly, at the beginning of September. What with the deficit, what with the amendment, that we are all going to burst into flames. I showed them the figures, they said they have some estimates, but they will do the math again, that this was what it looked like to them. Now they came back and said: 'It's like you said, a big, sustainable growth.' (...) The share of consumption is low, the lowest in Europe. The share of consumption in Germany's Gross Domestic Product and economic growth is twice as big as Romania's. Nobody is saying that industrial output has grown by almost 10 percent, exports on industrial output have. (...) Why do you think I am telling you that I am optimistic as to Romania's future path? This growth is due to some measures that we have taken this year, the governing coalition, the Government and which lay the foundation of a sustainable development for next year too," the premier completed. 

Tudose added that we have growth this year, but "we are just planting the seeds." 

"Next year the construction of motorways, the construction of hospitals begins, things that bring added value. And if not even then we don't have a sustainable growth....Forgive me, are we guilty that we have a big economic growth? the Prime Minister further said.AGERPRES .