In the EU, construction works inched up 0.8% in June from the previous month, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said. The data are adjusted for seasonal factors.
Among the member states for which data were available, construction output rose in four, fell in six and remained stable in Spain, France and Hungary. The increases were registered in Slovenia (+10.5%), Poland (+5.3%), Germany (+1.6%) and the Czech Republic (+1.3%), and the largest decreases in Romania, Portugal (-2.2%) and Sweden (-0.9%).
In June compared with the same month of 2012, Romanian construction output fell 3.9%, the data showed. The EU average output was down 1.5%.
Construction output fell in ten EU states and rose in three. The largest decreases were registered in Poland (-16.3%), Portugal (-12%) and Slovakia (-10.7%), and the increases in Hungary (+12.5%), Spain (+4.1%) and Sweden (+3.1%).