In May, Romanian retail sales advanced at a similar monthly pace of 1.1%, EU’s statistics agency Eurostat said.
Overall retail trade volume in the European Union inched down 0.3% on the month in June, the data showed.
Among the member states for which data were available, total retail trade rose in seven, fell in eleven and remained stable in Denmark, Lithuania and Poland. The highest increases were registered in Slovenia (+2.4%), Latvia (+2.1%) and Luxembourg (+1.5%), and the largest decreases in Ireland (-2.2%), the United Kingdom (-1.7%) and Romania.
In June compared with the year-earlier month, Romanian retail sales rose 3.9%, the third largest increase in the EU bloc.
Sales in the European Union inched down 0.7% on the year in June, the data showed.
Total retail trade fell in eight EU states, rose in 12 and remained stable in Austria. The largest decreases were observed in Portugal (-5.3%), Spain (-5.1%) and Malta (-4.3%), and the highest increases in Estonia and Latvia (both +8.4%), Luxembourg (+5.9%) and Romania.
The data are adjusted for working days and seasonal effects.