In the European Union, industrial new orders increased 2.3% on the year in September, the EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
New orders rose in 18 member states for which data were available and fell in four. The highest increases were registered in Latvia (+37.7%), Denmark (+31.2%) and Lithuania (+28.9%).
In September compared with August, Romanian industrial orders rose 2.3%, the sixth biggest increase in the bloc.
Industrial new orders in the EU fell 2.3% on the month in September, after a 0.3% decline a month earlier. The august figures were revised from a 0.4% increase previously estimated.
Total manufacturing working on orders rose in 12 and fell in 10 member states. The highest increases were registered in Denmark (+14.0%), Latvia (+13.1%) and Poland (+5.1%), and the largest decreases in Italy (-9.2%), Estonia (-9.1%) and France (-6.2%).