The EU’s average output declined 0.9% on the year, the statistics office Eurostat said.
Industrial production rose in eight member states for which data were available and fell in fifteen. The largest increases were in Poland (+10.0%), the Czech Republic (+4.4%) and Latvia (+3.2%), and the largest decreases in Greece (-12.4%), Luxembourg (-9.6%) and Portugal (-8.9%).
In December compared with November, industrial production fell in 12 and rose in 11 states. The largest decreases were registered in Malta (-2.9%), Germany (-2.7%), Greece and Latvia (both -2.4%), and the highest increases in Denmark (+3.3%), Finland (+2.6%) and Ireland (+2.5%).
Romania’s industrial output inched down 0.1% on the month in December, while EU’s average production was down 0.6%.