{"id":24969,"date":"2026-06-16T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/24969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:55:09","slug":"italys-inflation-confirmed-at-32-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/24969\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s inflation confirmed at 32-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5317bd34874ece75507e7253f745f44f.jpeg\" alt=\"Banknotes with the value of 100 and 50 euros and coins are lying on a table. (is associated with: \u00abItaly's inflation confirmed at 32-month high\u00bb) Monika Skolimowska\/dpa\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"570\" width=\"800\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Banknotes with the value of 100 and 50 euros and coins are lying on a table. (is associated with: \u00abItaly&#8217;s inflation confirmed at 32-month high\u00bb) Monika Skolimowska\/dpa      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Consumer price inflation in Italy accelerated further in May to the highest level in more than two-and-a-half years, as estimated initially, the latest data from the statistical office showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.2% in May from April&#8217;s 2.7%. Moreover, this was the highest inflation rate since September 2023 when prices rose 5.3%. That was in line with the flash data published on May 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The increase in inflation was primarily driven by price developments in non-regulated energy products, which rose by 12.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Inflation based on regulated energy products rose to 5.6% from 5.3%. The annual price growth in transport-related services also accelerated 1.7% from 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Excluding energy and unprocessed food, core inflation increased to 1.7% from 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">On a monthly basis, consumer prices went up 0.4% after rising 1.1% in April, as estimated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The EU measure of inflation stood at 3.2% in May, up from 2.8% in April. In the flash estimate, the rate was 3.3%. Monthly, the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) climbed 0.3%, revised down from 0.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banknotes with the value of 100 and 50 euros and coins are lying on a table. (is associated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12101,12103,12102,5],"class_list":["post-24969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-consumer-price-inflation","tag-core-inflation","tag-inflation-rate","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}