In March, consumer prices were 2.2 percent higher than in the same month last year. This is the lowest value since April 2021 when it was 2.0 percent.
Despite the energy price brakes that expired at the beginning of the year and the increase in the CO2 price to 45 euros per ton of carbon dioxide, energy prices fell by 2.7 percent in March. For the first time since February 2015, food prices were below the level of the samemonth last year, according to preliminary data.