Ireland boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in October, at 15.2 percent, followed by Denmark in second place, with 8.6 percent, and Malta in third place, with 6.2 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Belgium reported the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in October, at 7.9 percent, while Germany recorded a 4.9-percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said at the end of last week that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 0.8 percent in October in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose by 4.7 percent in October compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 3.9 percent in year-on-year terms in October, while increasing 4.6 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat