Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Italy boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in March, at 37.7 percent, followed by Slovakia in second place, with 24.5 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Poland and Hungary tied for third place, each with 16.3 percent.
Among member states for which data were available, Malta reported the steepest year-on-year decline in industrial production in March, at 2.8 percent, while Estonia recorded a 2.2 percent decrease, the agency's data showed.
Eurostat reported on Wednesday that industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 11 percent in March in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 10.9 percent increase.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 18.9 percent in March compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat