In the EU bloc, construction production edged down 0.9% in May compared with the earlier month, EU’s statistics office Eurostat said.
The largest monthly decreases were registered in Slovenia (-9.8%), the Netherlands (-2.3%) and Slovakia (-1.3%), and the highest increases in Hungary (+6.5%), Poland (+3.7%) and Romania.
Compared with May 2010, Romanian construction output rose 2.6% in May, the data showed. The EU average construction output was down 1% on the year.
The biggest declines were recorded in Slovenia (-30.1%), Spain (-17.3%) and Bulgaria (-16.5%), and the highest increases in Poland (+24.7%), Sweden (+11.2%) and Germany (+8%).