Annual inflation rate in both Eurozone and EU rose 0.3% in May, according to data issued by the statistical office of the European Union (EU), Eurostat.
Inflation was previously projected to be 0.3% as compared to 0.2% in April.
The core consumer price index (CPI) was confirmed at 0.9% year-on-year as expected.
The Eurostat report showed that “the largest upward impacts to euro area annual inflation came from vegetables which increased +0.09 percentage points, followed by restaurants & cafés (+0.08 pp) and tobacco (+0.07 pp), while fuels for transport lost -0.34 pp, heating oil (-0.15 pp) and gas (-0.08 pp) had the biggest downward impacts.”