19/10/2022 (Agence Europe) – The annual inflation rate in the euro area was 9.9% in September, up from 9.1% in August, according to data released by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) on Wednesday 19 October. In the EU, it was 10.9%, compared with 10.1% in August. The lowest annual rates were observed in France (6.2%), Malta (7.4%) and Finland (8.4%), while the highest were recorded in Estonia (24.1%), Lithuania (22.5%) and Latvia (22.0%). In Spain, prices rose by 9.0%, in Italy by 9.4% and in Germany by 10.9%. In September, the highest contributions to the inflation rate came from energy (+4.19 percentage points, pp), followed by food, alcohol and tobacco (+2.47 pp), services (+1.80 pp) and non-energy industrial goods (+1.47 pp). (MB)