Luxembourg / Brussels, 18/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - Eurostat, the EU's Statistical Office, last month announced that inflation rose to reach an annual average of 2.4% in the euro zone (as opposed to 0.9% one year earlier and 1.9% in May) and 2.1% in the EU as a whole (against 1% one year earlier and 1.7% in May). The differences are, however, considerable from one Member State to the next: the United Kingdom was at 0.8% in June, Sweden 1.4%, France 1.9%, Germany 2% (all below the average),...