Among the Member States for which data are available, total retail trade rose in eleven Member States and fell in six. The largest increases were observed in Latvia (+24.3%), Lithuania (+16.5%), Estonia (+15.2%) and Slovakia (+9.9%), and the highest decreases in Luxembourg (-9.9%), Denmark (-2.2%) and Germany (-1.9%).
Monthly changes
In May 2007, compared with April 2007, “food, drinks and tobacco” fell by 0.3% in the euro area but rose by 0.1% in the EU27. The non food sector decreased by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.
Among the Member States for which data are available, total retail trade increased in eleven Member States and fell in six. The largest increases were observed in Lithuania (+3.6%), Estonia and Slovakia (both +2.7%) and Latvia (+2.6%), and the highest decreases in Luxembourg (-10.6%), Austria (-2.4%) and Denmark (-2.3%).
