Construction works rose 0.6% in the EU28 and 0.4% in the eurozone, according to the EU’s statistics office Eurostat.
The biggest increases were registered in Slovenia (+24.8%), Hungary (+17.5%) and Spain (+11,6%), while the sharpest declines were in Romania (-19.7%), Portugal (-8.8%) and Slovakia (-6.1%).
Compared to June, construction works stagnated in the eurozone and the EU28. The biggest monthly declines were in Czech Republic (-3.1%), Slovenia (-2.1%), France (-1.5%) and Poland (-1%), and the biggest increases were in Hungary (+3.9%), Germany (+1.7%), Spain and Sweden (1% each).
Romanian construction works edged down 0.2% on the month in July.