Denmark ranked first, with 24.6 percent growth, while Romania is followed by Lithuania (17.8 percent). The highest declines were registered in Hungary (11.4 percent), France (8.9 percent), and the Netherlands (7.5 percent).
Month-on-month, Romania’s increase in industrial orders amounted to 7 percent. In Denmark, monthly growth was 14.8 percent. Another country outranking Romania was Ireland, with a 9.7 percent monthly increase. Drops in monthly industrial orders were registered in Latvia (14.2 percent), Hungary (7.5 percent), Slovakia (6.6 percent), and Italy (6.4 percent).
At the EU level, industrial orders declined 2.8 percent year-on-year, while the decline was almost double, at 4.4 percent, in the euro-zone. Month-on-month, the decline was 4.7 percent in EU 27, and 3.5 percent in the euro-zone.
