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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7781

19 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/inflation
In July, inflation rate in Euro zone at 2.4%

Brussels, 18/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - On Friday, Eurostat reported that, in July 2000, Euro-zone annual inflation stood at 2.4%, thus stable compared to June 2000, but much higher than July 1999 (a year ago, it stood at 1.1%), whereas the inflation rate for the EU15 (which was also 1.1% in July 1999) increased from June to July 2000, from 2.1% to 2.2%. Also in the European Economic Area (EEA), the annual inflation rate in July was 2.2%, compared to 2.1% in June.

Here are the annual...