Romania reported an annual inflation rate of 8.6% in September 2025, by far the largest in the euro area, new data from Eurostat has found.
Other countries to report an above-average inflation rate for the month included Estonia (5.3%), Croatia (4.6%) and Slovakia (4.6%), while Latvia was on 4.2% and Bulgaria on 4.1%.
Conversely, the lowest annual inflation rate in the euro area was reported in Cyprus, where inflation was flat (0.0%) year-on-year, followed by France (1.1%), Italy (1.8%) and Greece (1.8%).
Euro area annual inflation
The euro area annual inflation rate stood at 2.2% in September, up from 2.0% in August, and compared to 1.7% in the corresponding month a year earlier.
The biggest contributors to the annual euro area inflation rate came from services (+1.49 percentage points), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (+0.58 percentage points), non-energy industrial goods (+0.20 percentage points) and energy (-0.03 percentage points), Eurostat noted.
In the EU as a whole, annual inflation stood at 2.6% in September, up from 2.4% in August.
Month-on-month inflation
On a month-on-month basis, the highest inflation rate in the European Union was recorded in Italy, where inflation was 1.3% higher than in August, followed by Portugal (1.0%), with Greece, Romania and Finland all reporting monthly inflation of 0.5%.
Several countries reported a decline in inflation on a month-on-month basis, with Malta reporting a decline of 1.3%, Estonia and France both seeing inflation down 1.1%, and Czechia down 0.8%. Read more here.
Monthly Inflation Rate by EU Member State, August 2025 (%)
| Country | Rate (%) |
|---|---|
| Italy | 1.3 |
| Portugal | 1.0 |
| Greece | 0.5 |
| Romania | 0.5 |
| Finland | 0.5 |
| Lithuania | 0.4 |
| Germany | 0.2 |
| Spain | 0.2 |
| Poland | 0.2 |
| Slovakia | 0.2 |
| Sweden | 0.2 |
| Latvia | 0.1 |
| Austria | 0.0 |
| Slovenia | 0.0 |
| Luxembourg | -0.1 |
| Denmark | -0.2 |
| Ireland | -0.2 |
| Hungary | -0.2 |
| Belgium | -0.3 |
| Netherlands | -0.3 |
| Cyprus | -0.4 |
| Bulgaria | -0.6 |
| Croatia | -0.6 |
| Czechia | -0.8 |
| Estonia | -1.1 |
| France | -1.1 |
| Malta | -1.3 |
