Ireland boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in April, at 22.5 percent, followed by Malta in second place, with 14.3 percent, and Denmark in third place, with 12.2 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Estonia reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in April, at 15.1 percent, while the Netherlands recorded a 12.8 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole increased by 0.1 percent in April in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production fell 6.4 percent in April compared with the same month a year earlier. When adjusted for seasonal factors, the decrease was 3.4 percent, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat