Annual inflation in the eurozone was 1.6% in June 2013, up from 1.4% in May, while annual inflation in the European Union was 1.7% in June 2013, up from 1.6% in May, the statistics office Eurostat said.

In June 2013, the lowest annual rates were registered in Greece (-0.3%), Latvia and Poland (both 0.2%), and the highest in Romania (4.5%), Estonia (4.1%) and the Netherlands (3.2%), the data showed.

The lowest 12-month average rates up to June 2013 were registered in Greece (0.2%), Sweden (0.7%) and Latvia (0.9%), and the highest in Romania (4.5%), Hungary (4.0%) and Estonia (3.9%).

The largest upward impacts to the eurozone annual inflation came from vegetables (+0.11 percentage points), fruit and electricity (+0.09 each), while telecommunications (-0.20), fuels for transport (-0.11) and medical &paramedical services (-0.08) had the biggest downward impacts, according to Eurostat.

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