In the EU, construction works increased 7.4% in December from the previous year, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Among the member states for which data were available, construction output rose in ten and fell in four. The highest increases were registered in Germany (+44.3%), the Czech Republic (+16.1%) and Poland (+14.9%), and the largest decreases in Slovenia (-21.9%), Bulgaria (-11.1%) and Portugal (-10.8%).
In December compared with November, Romanian construction output inched down 0.6%, while the EU average output was down 0.4%.
Construction output rose in rose in four member states, decreased in nine and remained stable in Sweden. The highest increases were registered in the Czech Republic (+5.5%), Slovakia (+3.8%) and Poland (+2.9%), and the largest decreases in the United Kingdom (-10.5%), Slovenia (-8.1%) and Germany (-6.4%).