The country’s harmonized index of consumer prices, or HICP, was 4.4% at the end of May, unchanged on the month, the statistics office Eurostat said. the EU’s average rate accelerated to 1.6% in May, from 1.4% in the twelve months through April.
The lowest annual rates in May were registered Greece (-0.3%), Latvia (-0.2%) and Cyprus (0.2%), and the highest in Romania (4.4%), Estonia (3.6%) and the Netherlands (3.1%), the data showed.