SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 18 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria and Romania were the only EU member states to post a negative annual inflation rate in December, the bloc's statistical office said on Wednesday.
Bulgaria recorded an annual deflation rate of 0.5% in December, while Romania had deflation of 0.1%, Eurostat said in a press release.
December inflation data for Ireland were unavailable. In November, Ireland posted annual deflation of 0.2%
Annual inflation in the EU was 1.2% in December, up from 0.6% in November.
Following are details about annual inflation rates in the bloc and in the EU member states in Southeast Europe in December:
| |
Annual inflation rate (%) |
| EU |
1.2 |
| Euro area |
1.1 |
| Bulgaria |
-0.5 |
| Croatia |
0.7 |
| Romania |
-0.1 |
| Slovenia |
0.6 |