In the EU, construction works inched down 1% in January from the same month in the previous year, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
Among the member states for which data were available, construction output fell in nine and rose in six. The largest decreases were registered in Slovenia (-19.7%), Portugal (-11.9%) and Spain (-11.5%), and the highest increases in Poland (+34.2%), Romania and Sweden (+7.3%).
In January compared with December, Romanian construction output rose 1.9%, the fourth biggest increase in the EU bloc. The EU average output was down 4.1%.
Construction output rose in fell in seven member states and rose in eight. The largest decreases were registered in the Czech Republic (-20.1%), the United Kingdom (-13.8%) and Italy (-7.8%), and the highest increases in Slovenia (+17.4%), Germany (+4.3%) and Portugal (+2.5%).