The European Union’s average index was down 0.2% on the month, the statistics office Eurostat said.
The highest increases in the total index were observed in Romania, Ireland (+0.3%), Greece and Poland (both +0.2%), and the largest decreases in Denmark (-1.2%), Sweden (-0.8%), the Netherlands and Finland (both -0.5%).
In December from the year-earlier month, Romanian industrial prices rose 6.7%, the seventh biggest growth in the EU bloc. The EU’s average growth was 4.9%.
The largest annual increases were registered in Lithuania (+9.5%), Latvia (+8.9%) and the United Kingdom (+8.2%), and the smallest in Malta (+0.7%), Denmark (+2.3%) and Slovakia (+2.5%). The only decrease was recorded in Sweden (-3.1%).
Romania’s industrial producer price index inched up 0.4% in December from a month earlier and was up 7% compared with the same month of 2010, according to data from the country’s statistics institute released earlier Thursday.