The annual core inflation rate in the Euro Area, which excludes prices for energy, food, alcohol, and tobacco, was at 2.3% for the fourth consecutive time in August of 2025, according to a preliminary estimate. The result was marginally ahead of market expectations that it would ease to 2.2%. Despite remaining at the lowest level since October 2021, the lack of a slowdown could fragment opinions of monetary policy response between dovish and hawkish members of the ECB Governing Council, with current expectations loosely split between a rate cut this year. source: EUROSTAT
Core consumer prices In the Euro Area increased 2.30 percent in August of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. Core Inflation Rate in Euro Area averaged 1.93 percent from 1991 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 5.70 percent in March of 2023 and a record low of 0.20 percent in September of 2020. This page provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Core Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Euro Area Core Inflation Rate - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2025.
Core consumer prices In the Euro Area increased 2.30 percent in August of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. Core Inflation Rate in Euro Area is expected to be 2.30 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Euro Area Core Inflation Rate is projected to trend around 1.80 percent in 2026, according to our econometric models.