{"id":417786,"date":"2025-02-03T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/03\/eurozona-inflazione-25-a-gennaio\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:23:09","slug":"inflation-rises-to-2-5-in-eurozone-as-2025-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/03\/inflation-rises-to-2-5-in-eurozone-as-2025-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rises to 2.5% in eurozone as 2025 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; <strong>Inflation rising in the eurozone in January<\/strong>. According to preliminary data from Eurostat, the cost of living index is expected to stand at <strong>2.5 per cent<\/strong>, up from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/07\/eurozone-inflation-ends-2024-on-the-rise-2-4-percent-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December (2.4 per cent)<\/a>. This increase is mainly driven by higher energy prices (1.8 per cent, up from 0.1 per cent in December), nullifying contractions in\u00a0&#8220;services&#8221; (3.9 per cent, compared with 4 per cent in December) and &#8220;food, alcohol, and tobacco&#8221; (2.3 per cent, compared with 2.6 per cent in December).<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Among the major euro area economies, inflation is expected to be unchanged in Germany and France (2.8 per cent and 1.8 per cent, respectively). In contrast, between December 2024 and January 2025,\u00a0<strong>Italy is expected to go higher than average<\/strong>\u00a0(+0.3 percentage points to 1.7 per cent).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eurostat&#8217;s preliminary inflation data seem to confirm the soundness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/09\/ecb-concerned-about-rising-gas-prices-17-7-percent-since-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Central Bank&#8217;s fears<\/a>, which sees the\u00a0<strong>energy factor as one of the possible obstacles\u00a0to growth and competitiveness<\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/economic-bulletin\/html\/eb202408.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0The latest economic bulletin<\/a> warned about the risks of higher gas prices and the fallout on the energy bill in terms of consumption and new inflationary spirals. The European Statistical Office will publish consolidated data on February 24, and only then will the picture\u00a0be clear and definitive. Still, it seems difficult that such a marked rise in the &#8220;energy&#8221; item can be massively corrected downward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary Eurostat data show a minimal increase (+0.1 percentage points) over December figures. 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