The consumer price growth in the euro area broke a two-year record last December

According to Tuesday's statement of Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office;  consumer prices rose by 2.2 percent in December 2010, compared to a year earlier. Recently such a pace was recorded in October 2008.

Last November, inflation rate was 1.9 percent in the EU countries using euro. Eurostat will publish a detailed report, over the reasons of the acceleration of the price increases in mid-January – reports MTI.