Malta boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in November, at 13.5 percent, followed by Belgium in second place with 8.7 percent, and Greece in third place with 4.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Croatia recorded the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in November, at 6.6 percent, while Ireland saw a 5.6-percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Wednesday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole increased by 0.4 percent in November in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production declined by 1.5 percent in November compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 1.1 percent in year-on-year terms in November, while decreasing 2.8 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat