Brussels, 07/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - In November 2007 compared with October 2007 Industrial producer prices up by 0.8% in Euro area (last October they rose by 0.7% and 0.9% respectively). In November 2007, compared with the previous month, prices in total industry excluding the energy sector rose by 0.1% in both the Euro area and the EU27. Prices in the energy sector increased by 3.2% and 3.9% respectively.
In monthly terms, among Member States for which data are available, the highest increases were registered in Lithuania (+2.3%), the United Kingdom (+2.2%) and Belgium (+2.1%). The only decreases were recorded in Luxembourg (-0.9%) and Ireland (-0.2%), while prices remained unchanged in Cyprus.
Annual changes saw prices in total industry excluding the energy sector increase by 3.2% in the Euro area and by 3.3% in the EU27. Prices in the energy sector rose by 7.8% and 7.0% respectively. the highest increases were observed in Lithuania (+15.2%), Bulgaria (+13.2%) and Denmark (+9.4%), and the lowest in Finland (+1.9%), Slovakia (+2.1%) and Germany (+2.5%). (A.B.)