In the EU, construction works fell 3.7% in February from the previous month, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Among the member states for which data were available, construction output fell in twelve, rose in two and remained stable in Sweden. The increases were registered in the United Kingdom (+5.7%) and Romania, and the largest decreases in Germany (-17.1%), Slovenia (-10.3%) and Italy (-9.9%).
In February compared with the same month of 2011, Romanian construction output rose 5.2%, again the second biggest increase in the EU bloc. The EU average output was down 9.4%.
Construction output fell in eleven EU states, rose in three and remained stable in France. The largest decreases were registered in Slovenia (-27.5%), Italy (-23%) and Germany (-21.4%), and the increases in Poland (+13.4%), Romania and Sweden (+3.6%).