Greece’s annual inflation rate rose to 4.3% in March from 4.2% in February, Eurostat said on Friday as reported by ANA. The EU executive’s statistics agency, in a report, said the inflation rate in the Eurozone rose to 2.7% in March from 2.4% in February, sharply up from 1.6% in March 2010. In the EU-27, the inflation rate rose to 3.1% from 2.9% and 2.0% over the same periods, respectively.
Ireland (1.2%), Sweden (1.4%) and Czech Republic (1.9%) recorded the lowest inflation rates in March, while Romania (8.0%), Estonia (5.1%), Bulgaria and Hungary (4.6 pct%) recorded the highest inflation rates. The inflation rate rose in 18 member-states, it was unchanged in five and fell in fourh member-states in March.
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