Slovenia boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in January, at 12.2 percent, followed by Greece in second place, with 10.5 percent, and Denmark in third place, with 5.3 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 January, at 34.1 percent, while Estonia recorded an 8.6 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Wednesday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 5.5 percent in January in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 1.6 percent in January compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production edged up by 0.1 percent in year-on-year terms in January, while decreasing 0.2 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat
