Eurostat confirms the preliminary estimate of a decline in inflation in the euro area in February to 2.6%, compared to 2.8%.
In the European Union it was 2.8% from 3.1% in January.
lower rates were recorded in Latvia, Denmark (both 0.6%) and Italy (0.8%).
The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (7.1%), Croatia (4.8%) and Estonia (4.4%).
Among the individual components, the highest contribution in the euro area came from services (+1.73 percentage points), followed by food, alcohol and tobacco (+0.79 points), non-energy industrial goods (+0.42 points ) and energy.
(-0.36 points).
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