In August, Eurostat published the July inflation, ie price information. In Estonia, the largest euro-zone inflation has been since joining the single currency, amounting to 5.3 percent in July compared to year. Eurozone average of 2.5 percent.
Estonia was among the 27 most-June inflation in Romania, where it amounted to 8.5 percent. 12-month average of the highest inflation rate in Romania (7.6%), Estonia (4.9%) and Greece (4.3%) and lowest in Sweden (1.6%), Czech (1.9%) and Netherlands ( 1.9%).
Compared to June, prices rose 0.6 percent in Estonia, and it is also the largest of the 27 countries. Germany was an increase of 0.5%, Portugal 0.1% and outside the euro area - Bulgaria and the Czech Republic by 0.4% to 0.3%. In other countries, inflation declined, most of them in Cyprus (-1.9%), Italy (-1.7%), Belgium (-1.6%), Greece (-1.4%), Spain (-1.2 %) and Slovenia (-1.1%).
When compared with April and July, inflation, the euro-zone countries in July it had increased in Belgium, Finland and the Netherlands. EUR to non-member countries, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the UK. The graph of the Member States without having a negative inflation rate in July was as follows: Romania 4.9%, Lithuania 4.6%, UK 4.4%, Latvia 4.2%, Poland 3.6%, Bulgaria 3.4%, Hungary 3.1%, Denmark 3%, 1.9% in the Czech Republic and Sweden 1.6%.
They promised, after all, is that the changeover to raise prices in Estonia, but the seven-month data show that prices have risen significantly, several times exceeding the economic crisis of the Greek and Irish figures.
17 Member States, the eurozone inflation in April and July (in percentage) compared to the same month last year. Eurostat data, the graph Virgo Screws
Article published in the 31st August 2011 newspaper Midweek
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