Brussels, 23/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - The industrial new orders index in the euro area rose by 2.6% in July 2009 compared with June 2009, statistics published by Eurostat on Wednesday 23 September have revealed. In June, the index increased by 4.0%. In the EU27, new orders rose by 1.6% in July 2009, after falling by 0.6% in June. Excluding ships, railway and aerospace equipment, for which changes tend to be more volatile, industrial new orders grew by 3.1% in the euro area and by 3.4% in the EU27. The highest increases were registered in Sweden (10.2%), Poland (6.1%) and Denmark (6.0%), and the largest decreases in Ireland (-8.5%), the Czech Republic (-3.8%) and Latvia (-3.6%).
In July 2009 compared with July 2008, industrial new orders decreased by 24.3% in the euro area and by 24.9% in the EU27. Total industrial new orders, excluding ships, railway and aerospace equipment, dropped by 23.4% in the euro area and by 22.5% in the EU27. The largest falls were registered in Estonia (-40.7%), Lithuania (-38.5%) and the United Kingdom (-35.2%), and the smallest in Ireland (-11.6%), Poland (-13.9%) and Sweden (-16.9%). (L.C./transl.rt)