Brussels, 16/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - Annual inflation reached 0.2% in November in the eurozone, compared with 1% in October, and 0.1% in the European Union as a whole, compared with 0.0% in October, according to figures released by the EU statistical office, Eurostat, on Wednesday 16 December.
Negative annual inflation was recorded in twelve member states: Cyprus (-1.5%), Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia (-0.9% each), Lithuania and Poland (-0.5%), Spain, Croatia and Slovakia (-0.4%), Finland (-0.2%), Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom (-0.1%). Inflation was zero in the Czech Republic and Latvia, lack-lustre in France (+0.1%) and low in Germany (-0.3%). The highest inflation was in Belgium (+1.4%), Malta (1.3%) and Sweden (+0.8%). Compared with October 2015, annual inflation fell in ten member states, remained stable in two and increased in fifteen.
The largest impacts to euro area annual inflation came from vegetables and restaurants & cafés (both +0.10 percentage points) and fruit (+0.08 pp), while fuels for transport (-0.54 pp), heating oil (-0.21 pp) and gas (-0.10 pp) had the biggest downward impacts. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)