Sweden saw the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in June, at 13.4 percent, followed by Ireland with 10.5 percent, and Latvia with 7.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Bulgaria recorded the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in June, at 8.2 percent, while Hungary saw a 4.9-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 0.5 percent in June in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production edged down 0.1 percent in June compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production inched up by 0.1 percent in year-on-year terms in June, while falling 0.5 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat