EUROSTAT FIGURES PROCLAIM CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION BOOM
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE LONGTIME sluggish continental construction market is now booming, according to European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with a year-on-year February increase in activity for the whole of the EU of 9.2%. What is especially noteworthy is that construction activity growth in the western European Eurozone was even higher - 10.4%. Germany's recovering economy is a key motor of this growth, with a 2006-2007 annual increase of 30.7%, which was bettered by a impressive 57.1% in neighbouring Poland, 32.5% in the Czech Republic and 31% in fellow ...
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