Brussels, 20/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - In December 2004, the inflation rate in the euro zone and EU25 rose by 2.4% compared to the same time last year. It had been 2% and 1.9% respectively in December 2003 and 2.2% in the two zones in November 2004. At the beginning of January, flash forecasts by Eurostat anticipated a rate of 2.3%. Last week during the meeting on rates at the Board of Governors of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, confirmed that in the absence of underlying...