The Emergency Ordinance no.79/2017 (the so called “fiscal revolution”) was adopted on 8th of November by the Romanian Government regarding the modification of the Fiscal Code and it came into force, being published on 10th of November in the Official Gazette, although the draft was negatively endorsed by the Fiscal Council and the Economic and Social Council.
The annual inflation rate advanced to a slightly higher-than-projected 0.64 percent in May 2017, after resuming in April the growth that had been discontinued in March 2017 (0.61 percent, against 0.18 percent). Behind this stood chiefly the step-up in core inflation and the slower negative growth of administered prices, as well as the rise in volatile food prices. The effects of these determinants were partially offset by the impact of slower annual fuel price dynamics, amid a renewed decline in the global oil price.
