In the EU bloc, industrial output inched up 0.2% on the month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Industrial production fell in 15 member states for which data are available, rose in five and was stable in the UK. The largest decreases were registered in Denmark (-5.8%), Portugal (-3.5%), Finland (-3.3%) and Slovenia (-2.7%), and the highest increases in Latvia (+4.1%) and Lithuania (+3.7%).
In June compared with the same month a year earlier, industrial production rose in 13 EU states and fell in eight. The highest increases were registered in Estonia (+23.7%), Latvia (+15.2%) and Lithuania (+10.3%), and the largest decreases in Greece (-13.2%), the United Kingdom (-5.3%) and Denmark (-3.3%).
Romania’s industrial output increased 1.8% on the month in May, while EU’s average production was up 1.7%.