The EU’s average growth was 4.7% in April compared with the year-earlier month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Industrial production rose in 18 member states for which data are available and fell in five. The highest increases were registered in Estonia (+31.8%), Latvia (+13.7%), Sweden (+10.5%) and Germany (+9.9%), and the largest decreases in Greece (-10.7%), Portugal (-1.7%) and Spain (-1.6%).
In April compared with a month earlier, industrial production rose in eleven EU states, fell in eleven and was stable in Estonia. The highest increases were registered in Latvia (+3.4%), Denmark (+2.8%) and Malta (+2.2%), and the largest decreases in Portugal (-3.6%), Greece (-3.5%) and Slovenia (-3.1%).
Romania’s industrial output inched down 0.2% on the month in March, while EU’s average production was up 0.1%.