Denmark boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in May, at 9.6 percent, followed by Ireland in second place, with 8.7 percent, and Greece in third place, with 6.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Romania reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in May, at 6.9 percent, while Germany recorded a 6.6 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Monday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 0.8 percent in May in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production decreased 1.7 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 0.7 percent in year-on-year terms in May, while increasing 2.1 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat
