Lithuania boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in December, at 33.3 percent, followed by Bulgaria in second place, with 14.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Malta reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in December, at 7.1 percent, while Ireland recorded a 2.9 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 2.5 percent in December in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 1.6 percent increase.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 16.7 percent in December compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat