In the EU28, construction works edged down 0.5% in March from the previous month, due to a 0.6% decrease in building construction and a 0.3% decline in civil engineering works, the bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The highest monthly increases were registered in Romania, Slovenia (+8.9%) and Italy (+1.9%), and the largest decreases in Portugal (-3%), the Netherlands (-2.6%) and Germany (-2.2%).
In March compared with the same month of 2013, Romanian construction output inched down 0.7%, the data showed. The EU average output was up 5.3%.
The biggest annual increases were recorded in Slovenia (+44.9%), Hungary (+34.1%) and Spain (+19.1%), and the largest declines in Portugal (-13.8%), Sweden (-2.8%) and Italy (-1.4%).