Industrial production rose in seven member states for which data were available and fell in fifteen, the statistics office Eurostat said. The highest increases registered in Slovakia (+8.4%), Latvia (+7.3%) and the Netherlands (+6.7%), and the largest decreases in Luxembourg (-14.4%), Malta (-11.4%) and Greece (-8.5%).
In February from a month earlier, industrial production rose in nine and fell in thirteen states. The highest increases were in the Netherlands (+13%), Slovakia (+2.8%) and Finland (+2.1%), and the largest decreases in Malta (-4.6%), Sweden (-3.6%) and Ireland (-3.2%).
Romania’s industrial output declined 1.4% on the month in February, but the EU’s average production was up 0.2%.