In November 2012, Romanian retail sales advanced 1.3% month-on-month, EU’s statistics agency Eurostat said.
Overall retail trade volume in the European Union inched down 0.6% on the month in December, the data showed.
Among the member states for which data were available, total retail trade fell in twelve, rose in eight and remained stable in Finland. The largest decreases were observed in Romania, Spain (-2.2%) and Slovenia (-2.1%), and the highest increases in Luxembourg and Poland (both +2.2%) and Estonia (+1.9%).
In December compared with the year-earlier month, Romanian retail sales fell 3.3%, the ninth largest decline in the EU bloc.
Sales in the European Union decreased 2% on the year in December, the data showed.
Total retail trade fell in twelve EU states and rose in nine. The largest decreases were observed in Spain (-12.3%), Portugal (-8.6%) and Slovenia (-7.5%), and the highest increases in Latvia (+12.5%), Estonia (+7.2%) and Lithuania (+2.7%).
The data are adjusted for working days and seasonal effects.