The bloc’s average growth was 0.1%, EU’s statistics agency Eurostat said.
Among the member states for which data were available, total retail trade fell in ten and rose in eleven. The largest decreases were observed in Portugal (-8.8%), Spain (-5.3%) and Slovakia (-3.3%), and the highest increases in Lithuania (+13%), Latvia (+7.1%) and the United Kingdom (+6.3%).
In December compared with November, Romanian retail sales inched up 0.3%. Sales in the EU bloc rose at a similar pace, the data showed.
Total retail trade fell in eleven EU states, remained unchanged in Ireland and Sweden and rose in eight. The largest decreases were observed in Malta and Slovenia (both -3.1%) and Latvia (-2%), and the highest increases in Portugal (+2.2%), Belgium (+1.5%) and Poland (+0.7%).