Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were registered in Slovenia (–10.5%), Hungary and Poland (both –2.0%) and Sweden (–1.6%). The highest increases were observed in Cyprus (+1.6%), Luxembourg (+0.8%) and Belgium (+0.7%).
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