Ireland saw the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in April, at 40.7 percent, followed by Finland with 5.9 percent, and Sweden with 5 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Belgium recorded the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in May, at 7.3 percent, while Bulgaria saw a 6.5-percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said earlier this month that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole increased by 3.4 percent in May in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 3.9 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 1.6 percent in year-on-year terms in May, while inching up 0.2 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat