Eurozone industrial production falls by 0.3% in MayJuly 12, 2013 - 16:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Eurozone industrial production fell by 0.3 per cent in May, compared with April 2013. Moreover, industrial production in EU decreased by 0.6 per cent, neurope.eu reports. Compared with April, among the EU Member States for which data are available, industrial production fell in thirteen, rose in nine and remained stable in the United Kingdom. Data from Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia were not available. The largest decreases were registered in Romania (-10.7 per cent), Lithuania (-6.3 per cent) and Sweden (-3.8 per cent) while the highest increases were recorded in Portugal (+6.1 per cent), Latvia (+2.2 per cent) and Estonia (+2.0 per cent). On the other hand, compared with the same month in 2012, the largest decreases were registered in Ireland and Sweden (both -7.7 per cent), Bulgaria (-6.0 per cent) and Finland (-5.3 per cent), and the highest increases in Lithuania (+21.6 per cent), Estonia (+6.3 per cent) and Portugal (+4.5 per cent). In May 2013 compared with April 2013, Eurozone industrial production in energy rose by 0.1 per cent while in regard with May 2012 it rose by 0.2 per cent. In addition production of durable consumer goods in Eurozone dropped by 2.3 per cent compared with April and by 6.2 per cent in regard with May 2012. Capital goods decreased by 1.5 per cent (April 2013) and by 0.9 per cent (May 2012). Intermediate goods grew by 0.4 per cent and decreased by 2.6 per cent, while non-durable consumer goods increased by 0.6 per cent and by 0.1 per cent respectively. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | About 173 million drams and more than 30 beneficiary funds. "The Power of One Dram" is 4 years old In June 2020, the exclusive joint corporate social responsibility initiative of Idram and IDBank "The Power of One Dram" was launched. Aliyev travels to Turkey at Erdogan's invitation On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. CSTO budget “to be adjusted due to Yerevan’s non-payment of contributions” The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Russia sends note of protest to Armenia over envoy’s trip to Ukraine’s Bucha Russia has sent a note of protest to Armenia over the visit of Vladimir Karapetyan and Tigran Ter-Margaryan to Bucha. |