Industrial prices in Romania rose 9.5% on the year in March, above the EU’s average growth of 7.4%, the European bloc’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The biggest annual increases were registered in Bulgaria (+12.1%), the Netherlands (+10.8%), the United Kingdom (+10.7%) and Romania, and the smallest in Malta (+0.9%), Sweden (+2.9%), Slovakia (+3.3%) and Cyprus (+4.4%).
In monthly terms, Romanian industrial prices inched up 1% in March, matching EU average growth figures.
The largest monthly increases in the EU’s total index were recorded in United Kingdom (+3%), Denmark (+2.1%), Greece (+1.5%) and Finland (+1.3%), and the smallest in Hungary and Malta (both +0.1%), Sweden (+0.2%) and Latvia (+0.3%).
According to the Romanian statistics institute INS, industrial producer prices rose 1.1% on the month in March and were up 11% compared with the year-earlier period.