Malta saw the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in December, at 14.4 percent, followed by Ireland in second place with 10.1 percent, and Lithuania in third place with 7.6 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Austria recorded the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in December, at 9.5 percent, while Italy saw a 7.1-percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Thursday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 1.7 percent in December in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 0.2 percent in December compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went down by 0.3 percent in year-on-year terms in December, while decreasing 1.1 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat