31/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Annual inflation is expected to reach 2.4% by the end of January 2011, compared with 2.2% in December 2010, according to a press release from Eurostat, the EU statistics office. Driven up by fuel price hikes and the relative economic boom in Germany, inflation in the eurozone will be a key topic at the meeting of the governors of the European Central Bank on Thursday 3 February 2011. (M.B./transl.fl)