Ireland boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in February, at 3.8 percent, followed by Hungary in second place, with 3.5 percent, and Slovenia in third place, with 3.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Croatia reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in February, at 4.6 percent, while Lithuania recorded a 2.7 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said this week that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 5.4 percent in February in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 3.3 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 1.1 percent in year-on-year terms in February, while decreasing 0.1 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat