The EU’s average output inched up 0.3% on the month, the statistics office Eurostat said.
Industrial production rose in 13 member states for which data were available, fell in eight and remained stable in Ireland. The highest increases were registered in Portugal (+6.8%), Lithuania (+4.6%) and Slovenia (+4.0%), and the largest decreases in the Czech Republic (-2.9%), Denmark (-2.8%), Romania and Finland (both -1.1%).
In annual terms, industrial production fell in eleven and rose in eleven EU countries in August. The largest decreases were registered in Italy (-5.2%), Spain (-3.2%) and the Czech Republic (-3.1%), and the highest increases in Slovakia (+17.0%), Lithuania (+11.1%) and Latvia (+8.1%).
Romania’s industrial output fell 1.7% on the month in August, while EU’s average production was down 1.8%.