Industrial prices in Romania inched up 0.3% on the month in April, below the EU’s average growth of 1%, the European bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The largest monthly increases in the EU’s total index were recorded in Latvia (+4.6%), the United Kingdom (+1.8%) and the Netherlands, and the lowest in Romania. The only decrease was observed in Sweden (-0.5%), while prices remained stable in Malta.
In annual terms, Romanian industrial prices rose 8.8% in April, while EU average growth was 7.8%.
The biggest annual increases were registered in United Kingdom (+13.1%), the Netherlands (+11.7%) and Bulgaria (+10.7%), and the smallest in Malta (+0.9%), Sweden (+2.9%) and Slovakia (+3.1%).