In the EU bloc, construction production edged down 1.2% in April compared with the year-earlier month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The largest annual decreases in construction output were observed in Slovenia (-27.3%), Bulgaria (-22.8%) and Spain (-16.9%), and the highest increases in Poland (+18.7%), Sweden (+8.1%) and Germany (+4.5%).
Compared with March, Romanian construction output inched down 0.3% in April, the data showed. The EU average construction output was down 0.9% on the month.
The biggest monthly declines were recorded in the United Kingdom (-13.4%), Germany (-5.7%) and Portugal (-4.0%), and the only increases in Sweden (+1.6%), France (+0.7%) and Poland (+0.5%).