{
  "id": 3073533,
  "title": "EU industrial production rebounds in 2025",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/eu-industrial-production-rebounds-in-2025",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-24T17:00:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/eu-industrial-production-rebounds-in-2025/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2025, the European Union's industrial production rebounded, marking the first increase since 2022. This upward trend follows two years of declines: 2023 (-1.5%) and 2024 (-1.9%). Constant prices, which account for inflation, are based on fixed base year prices (2021 in this case) to measure value changes over time. Conversely, current prices reflect actual production costs in the respective year.\n\nThe EU's industrial output had been steadily growing from 2015 to 2018. However, production dropped in 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and again in 2020. Despite this, both 2021 and 2022 saw increases in industrial activity across all sectors. In nominal terms, the EU's value of sold production surged from €5,869 billion in 2024 to €6,090 billion in 2025. This data is derived from Eurostat's published information on manufactured goods production.\n\nWhen examining the top five manufacturing groups, food products experienced the most significant boost in sold production value, increasing by +3.8% compared to 2024 and +11.2% since 2015. Machinery and equipment followed closely with a +3.3% rise, while motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers saw a smaller increase of +0.6%. Chemicals and chemical products, as well as fabricated metal products (excluding machinery and equipment), both recorded slight declines of -1.4% over the past year. Chemicals and chemical products and fabricated metal products were the only manufacturing sectors to experience a decrease over the past decade.",
  "summary": "In 2025, the EU’s value of sold production in constant prices increased by 2.9% compared with 2024. This is the first time since 2022 and comes after 2 successive declines in 2023 (-1.5% compared with 2022) and 2024 (-1.9% compared with 2023). Constant prices are adjusted for inflation by using the prices of a fixed ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}