OREANDA-NEWS. August 22, 2011. As in the first quarter of the year, the 8.4-percent economic growth reported by Estonia in the second quarter was the highest among the EU countries.

Compared to the same period last year, the Lithuanian economy grew by 5.9 percent and the Latvian economy by 5.7 percent.

According to Eurostat, the GDP growth figure for the EU and the Eurozone economies dropped from 2.5 percent in the first quarter to 1.7 percent in the second quarter.

In the first quarter, the EU and Eurozone economies grew by 0.8 percent, but in the second quarter, only by 0.2 percent.