In the European Union, industrial new orders nudged down 0.8% in July, after a fall of 0.8% also in June, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
New orders rose in eleven member states for which data were available and fell in eleven. The largest decreases were registered in France (-11.2%), Finland (-10.3%) and Slovakia (-7.7%), and the highest increases in Sweden (+5.8%), Romania and Lithuania (+2.9%).
In July compared with the year-earlier month, Romanian industrial orders rose 11%, after an increase of 2.8% in June.
Total manufacturing working on orders rose in sixteen and fell in six member states. The highest increases were registered in Estonia (+24.5%), Lithuania (+24.4%) and Bulgaria (+21.8%), and the largest decreases in Hungary (-6%), Spain (-1.9%) and Slovakia (-1.4%).