Denmark boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in July, at 5.7 percent, followed by France in second place, with 2.8 percent, and Malta in third place, with 2.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Bulgaria reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in July, at 11.5 percent, while Estonia recorded a 9.5 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 2.4 percent in July in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production fell 2.7 percent in July compared with the same month a year earlier. When adjusted for seasonal factors, the decrease was 2 percent, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat