In the European Union, industrial new orders increased 6.5% on the year in August, the EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
New orders rose in 18 member states for which data were available and fell in four. The highest increases were registered in Estonia (+41.1%), Bulgaria (+25.3%) and Lithuania (+19.3%), and the largest decreases in Denmark (-9.1%) and the Czech Republic (-5.5%).
In August compared with July, Romanian industrial orders rose 2%, while new orders in the EU bloc inched up 0.4%.
Total manufacturing working on orders rose in 15 and fell in seven member states. The highest increases were registered in Slovakia (+12.6%), Estonia (+11.2%) and Hungary (+11.1%), and the largest decreases in Denmark (-8.0%), the Netherlands (-5.3%) and Ireland (-4.0%).