In the EU, construction works were unchanged in August from the previous month, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Among the member states for which data were available, construction output rose in five, remained stable in the Czech Republic and decreased in seven. The highest increases were registered in Portugal (+7.6%), France (+3.2%) and Hungary (+1.5%), and the largest decreases in Slovenia (-6.6%), Romania and Slovakia (-2.3%).
Compared with August 2010, Romanian construction output rose 6.3% in August, the second highest increase in the bloc. The EU average output was up 0.6% on the year.
Construction output rose in six member states and fell in eight. The highest increases were registered in Poland (+10.6%), Romania and Germany (+5.2%), and the largest decreases in Slovenia (-32.8%), Hungary (-12.3%) and Portugal (-10%).