Lithuania boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in February, at 20.4 percent, while Bulgaria trailed Poland in third place, with 14.4 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 February, at 14.1 percent, while Portugal recorded a 5.7 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 3 percent in February in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 2 percent increase.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 17.6 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat