Brussels, 07/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - In February 2009, the index of industrial production prices fell by 0.5% in the eurozone and 0.3% in the EU27 compared to January 2009, when prices fell by 1.1% and 0.7% respectively. Compared with February 2008, industrial production prices fell by 1.8% in the eurozone and 0.8% in the EU27, explains Eurostat in a press release published on Monday 6 April 2009.
Compared with January 2009, prices across all areas of industry apart from energy fell by 0.4% in the eurozone and 0.3% in the EU27. In the energy industry, prices fell by 0.7% and 0.3% respectively. In terms of member states, the biggest rises in the overall index were recorded in Hungary (+2.4%), Poland (+1.5%) and Denmark (+1.3%), and the greatest falls in Lithuania (-1.2%), Bulgaria (-0.9%) and Estonia (-0.7%).
Compared with January 2008, prices in industry as a whole apart from the energy industry fell by 1.0% in the eurozone but rose by 0.1% in the EU27. Prices in the energy industry fell by 4.5% and 3.3% respectively. In terms of countries, the biggest rises were recorded in Malta (+39.4%), Hungary (+6.2%) and Romania (+5.8%), and the biggest falls in Greece (-5.3%), France and the Netherlands (both -4.5%). (A.B./transl.fl)