In the EU bloc, construction works dropped 8.1% in June compared with the year-earlier month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The largest annual decreases were registered in Spain (-43.7%), Slovenia (-35.9%), Hungary (-13.9%) and Romania, and the only increases in Poland (+16.2%), Sweden (+4.5%), Germany (+2.6%) and the Netherlands (+2.3%).
Compared with May, Romanian construction output fell 1.3% in June, the data showed. The EU average construction output was down 1.3% on the month.
The biggest declines were recorded in Slovenia (-11.9%), Hungary (-5.5%) and Germany (-4.5%), and the highest increases in the United Kingdom (+3.8%), Slovakia (+2%) and Portugal (+1.7%).