Ireland saw the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in February, at 38.8 percent, followed by Lithuania with 9.1 percent, and Luxembourg with 6.6 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Hungary recorded the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in February, at 8 percent, while Bulgaria saw a 4.7-percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said on Tuesday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole increased by 0.6 percent in February in year-on-year terms.
Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production fell 2 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production inched up by 0.1 percent in year-on-year terms in February, while decreasing 0.2 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.
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Source: PAP, forsal.pl, europa.eu/eurostat