Croatia boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in September, at 5.8 percent, followed by Portugal in second place, with 2.7 percent, and Slovenia in third place, with 1.6 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Ireland reported the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in September, at 10.7 percent, while Denmark recorded a 5-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 2.4 percent in September in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production decreased by 0.3 percent in September compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 0.4 percent in year-on-year terms in September, 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