{"id":406115,"date":"2025-09-07T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:38:22","slug":"cyprus-posts-lowest-inflation-rate-in-eu-as-eurozone-holds-steady-knews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406115\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus posts lowest inflation rate in EU as eurozone holds steady, KNEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus recorded the lowest annual inflation rate in the European Union in July, just 0.1%, as price growth across the euro area held steady at 2.0%, according to data released Friday by Eurostat.<\/p>\n<p>The figure marks a sharp contrast with the wider bloc, where EU inflation rose slightly to 2.4% in July, up from 2.3% in June. A year earlier, the EU\u2019s inflation rate stood at 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>France and Ireland joined Cyprus among the countries with the slowest price growth, posting rates of 0.9% and 1.6% respectively. At the other end of the spectrum, Romania registered the highest annual inflation in the EU at 6.6%, followed by Estonia at 5.6% and Slovakia at 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The July figures show mixed trends across member states: inflation declined in eight countries, remained unchanged in six and rose in thirteen.<\/p>\n<p>Across the euro area, services contributed the most to the annual inflation rate, adding 1.46 percentage points. Food, alcohol and tobacco added 0.63 points, while non-energy industrial goods contributed 0.18 points. Energy prices, by contrast, pulled inflation down by 0.23 points.<\/p>\n<p>The eurozone\u2019s July inflation figure is down from 2.6% a year earlier, suggesting that the European Central Bank\u2019s efforts to stabilize price growth are having some effect.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eurostat_inflation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"639\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyprus recorded the lowest annual inflation rate in the European Union in July, just 0.1%, as price growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[8612,15685,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,72716,20327,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-406115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-cyprus","9":"tag-ecb","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-eurostat","16":"tag-eurozone","17":"tag-inflation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164945115959457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}