{"id":83946,"date":"2025-08-22T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83946\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:42:10","slug":"greek-inflation-nearly-double-eurozones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83946\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek inflation nearly double eurozone\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/supermarket_shutterstock_web.jpg\" alt=\"Greek inflation nearly double eurozone\u2019s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/supermarket_shutterstock_web-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Shutterstock]<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s harmonized consumer inflation, which can be directly compared to other eurozone members\u2019, was almost double the 20-member eurozone\u2019s in July, at 3.7% versus a eurozone average of 2%, European statistics agency Eurostat has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Among all 27 EU members, inflation averaged 2.4%, Eurostat said.<\/p>\n<p>Greece was in joint seventh place among the 27, trailing Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia, and equaling Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The highest year-on-year rise was in services (5.2%) and energy prices were up 0.7%, while in the eurozone they were down 2.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The national consumer price index released by national statistics agency ELSTAT reached 3.1% year-on-year in July. In that index, the greatest hikes were seen in clothing and footwear (8.4%), housing (6.6%), and hotels-cafes-restaurants (6.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Shutterstock] Greece\u2019s harmonized consumer inflation, which can be directly compared to other eurozone members\u2019, was almost double the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,1431,7723,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-statistics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}