As the COVID-19 pandemic relented, Belgium boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the 27-nation European Union in August, at 29.9 percent, followed by Ireland in second place, with 22.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Portugal reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in August, at 7.9 percent, while Malta recorded a 4.2 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 5.3 percent in August in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 5.1 percent increase as the coronavirus ebbed.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 13.2 percent in August compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat