Bulgaria boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in July, at 17.6 percent, followed by Denmark in second place, with 12 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 July, at 23.7 percent, while Estonia and Slovakia each recorded a 6.4 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole fell by 0.8 percent in July in year-on-year terms, while the single-currency euro area recorded a 2.4 percent decrease.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 7.6 percent in July compared with the same month a year earlier. When adjusted for seasonal factors, the increase was 10.2 percent, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat