07/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Retail sales down in the EU. Between October and November 2015, the volume of retail sales was down slightly, by 0.3%, in the eurozone and by 0.2% in the EU28, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday 7 January. The largest increases were seen in Romania (+2.6%), the United Kingdom (+1.8%) and Poland (+1.6%) and the steepest drops in Latvia (-3.2%), Portugal (-1.6%) and Estonia (-1.5%). In comparison to the same period last year, the sales index has grown by 1.4% in the eurozone and by 2.6% at Union level, led mainly by the non-food sector (+1.8% in the eurozone and +3.4% at EU level). Here again, the greatest increases were to be seen in Romania (+15%), Poland (+5.9%) and the United Kingdom (+5.4%) and the smallest increases in Belgium (+2.5%) and Latvia (+0.7%). (PH)