The EU’s average growth was 4% in May compared with the year-earlier month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Industrial production rose in 18 member states for which data are available and fell in five. The highest increases were registered in Estonia (+26.1%), the Czech Republic (+12.6%), and Lithuania (+11.4%), and the largest decreases in Greece (-10%), the Netherlands (-2.6%) and the United Kingdom (-1.1%).
In May compared with a month earlier, industrial production rose in 18 EU states and fell in five. The highest increases were registered in Lithuania (+5%), Slovenia (+4.1%) and Portugal (+2.8%), and the largest decreases in Estonia (-2.5%), Latvia and Malta (both -1.3%).
Romania’s industrial output increased 1.6% on the month in May, while EU’s average production was up 0.4%.