Denmark boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in April, at 17.4 percent, followed by Greece in second place, with 10.8 percent, and Slovenia in third place, with 7.4 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 April, at 15.7 percent, while Latvia recorded a 7.8 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said last week that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 2 percent in April in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 7.9 percent in April, compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 4.4 percent in year-on-year terms in April, while increasing 7 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat
