Interim President Ilie Bolojan on Monday welcomed a delegation of the management of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) at the Cotroceni Presidential Palac, represented by Governor Mugur Isarescu and Deputy Governor Cosmin Marinescu.According to the Presidential Administration, the meeting took place amid the current macroeconomic picture dominated by internal and external risks and uncertainties that require prudence and responsibility in terms of economic policies."Interim President Bolojan underlined the importance of the central bank in ensuring the country's economic stability and in increasing the confidence of financial markets and investors in Romania's economy."The Presidential Administration shows that the discussions focused on the need for close cooperation between public economic and financial authorities."Romania's economic stability requires responsible policies and structural reforms, in line with the commitments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which ensure the sustainability of public finances and the financial system in the long term," according to the Presidential Administration.Governor Isarescu underlined BNR's commitment to contributing to securing macroeconomic stability by adequately managing the existing risks within the limits of the institutional powers of the central bank."Securing financial and economic stability remains, in the current context, the main objective of the National Bank of Romania, for the achievement of which coherent and responsible decisions are necessary, which would lead to the full capitalisation on the European funds from which Romania benefits and to increase, implicitly, the investment attractiveness at the level of the private sector," according to the Presidential Administration. (Photo:https://www.presidency.ro/)
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