Lithuania boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in April, at 20.6 percent, followed by Denmark in second place, with 17 percent, and Bulgaria in third place, with 16.9 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 April, at 30.9 percent, while Slovakia recorded a 9.6 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole fell by 0.5 percent in April in year-on-year terms, while the single-currency euro area recorded a 2 percent decrease.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 13 percent in April compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat