Malta had the second highest increase in retail trade in February, according to Eurostat figures issued today.
The EU statistics office said that the volume of retail trade was down by 0.6% in the euro area and stable in the EU27.
Among the Member States for which data was available, total retail trade fell in 13 and rose in seven countries. The largest decreases were observed in Portugal (-3.4%), Estonia (-2.3%) and Slovenia (-1.7%), and the highest increases in the United Kingdom (+2.2%), Malta (+0.9%) and France (+0.6%).