Bulgaria boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in May, at 20.2 percent, followed by Denmark in second place, with 17.2 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 May, at 4.8 percent, while Luxembourg recorded a 2.1 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole rose by 0.6 percent in May in year-on-year terms, while the single-currency euro area recorded a 0.8 percent increase.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 15 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat