19/01/2026 (Agence Europe) – The annual inflation rate in the euro area stood at 1.9% in December 2025, compared with 2.1% in November, according to figures published by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) on Monday 19 January. At EU level, it was 2.3% in December, compared with 2.4% the previous month. The lowest rates were observed in Cyprus (0.1%), France (0.7%) and Italy (1.2%), while the highest were recorded in Romania (8.6%), Slovakia (4.1%) and Estonia (4.0%). Price increases were moderate in Germany (2.0%) and sustained in Spain (3.0%). The biggest contributions to the annual inflation rate in the euro area at the end of 2025 came from services (+1.54 percentage points or pp), followed by food, alcohol, and tobacco (+0.49 pp), non-energy industrial goods (+0.09 pp) and energy (-0.18 pp). (MB)