{"id":818522,"date":"2026-07-22T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818522\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:01:10","slug":"evolution-of-fuel-prices-in-june-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818522\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of fuel prices in June 2026 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In June 2026, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Harmonised_index_of_consumer_prices_(HICP)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">price<\/a> of fuels and lubricants for personal transport in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> increased by 13.7% compared with June 2025. This followed a 20.8% rise in April 2026 and a 20.7% rise in May, compared with the same months in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In all EU countries, fuels and lubricants prices kept rising in June 2026, compared with June 2025, but at a slower pace than in May 2026, when 4 countries registered annual inflation rates for this category above 30%. In June 2026, compared with June 2025, the highest increases were recorded in Bulgaria (+26.0%), Lithuania (+23.5%), Romania (+23.1%), Finland (+22.0%) and Luxembourg (+20.7%). The lowest increases were recorded in Hungary (+2.3%) and Poland (+5.8%), while in the remaining countries, rises ranged from +7.9% in Spain to +18.6% in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/price-changes-fuel-lubricants-april-june-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Price changes for fuel and lubricants, April-june 2026 (%, annual rate of change). Bar chart. Link to full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/price-changes-fuel-lubricants-april-june-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/4c1c1f22-6531-494e-aee1-6040bd51dc19?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-06-17T09:00:55Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prc_hicp_minr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diesel and petrol prices down compared with May 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">On a monthly basis, in June 2026, EU consumers saw diesel prices decrease by 6.4% and petrol by 4.2% compared with May 2026. In May 2026, diesel had dropped by 5.8%, while petrol had registered a slight increase of 0.8% relative to April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between May and June 2026, diesel prices decreased in all EU countries. The highest decreases were in Czechia (-11.3%), Poland (-9.7%) and Bulgaria (-9.4%), while the lowest were in Hungary (-0.6%), Italy (-1.4%) and Slovenia (-1.6%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">When it comes to petrol prices, Cyprus (+0.7%) and Italy (+0.5%) were the only EU countries registering increases between May and June 2026. The remaining countries recorded decreases, the largest in Sweden (-7.8%), Belgium (-7.0%) and Poland (-6.6%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/prices-changes-diesel-petrol-june-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Price changes for diesel and petrol, june 2026 (%, monthly rate of change). Bar chart. Link to full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/prices-changes-diesel-petrol-june-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/021fa95d-55cb-4617-81c5-ac1899566601?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-06-17T09:05:28Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prc_hicp_minr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In June 2026, the price of fuels and lubricants for personal transport in the EU increased by 13.7%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,5894,46,40153,40150],"class_list":["post-818522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-economy-and-finance","tag-hicp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}