Greece boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in October, at 10.8 percent, followed by Denmark in second place, with 6.9 percent, and Slovakia in third place, with 4.4 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Ireland reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in October, at 34 percent, while Estonia recorded a 12.2 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Wednesday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 5.5 percent in October in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 1.6 percent in October compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production fell by 0.8 percent in year-on-year terms in October, 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