The cost of services like haircuts, restaurant meals, plumbers, and hotel stays also rose faster in recent months, from three to 3.5 percent, suggesting price pressures are spreading beyond just energy and food.
Slovenia is paying consultancies over €21 million to test its banks in controversial contracts classed as military secrets.
An Italian judge has convicted Deutsche Bank of fraud, amid widening probes on tax evasion and rate-fixing.
The ECB is rapidly becoming the most powerful – and the least transparent and accountable – institution in the EU.
“You will be surprised in the autumn by the degree of movement that will have taken place in some member states,” says Thomas Wieser, one of the economists preparing plans for banking union ahead of the October EU summit.
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Influential. Investigative. Independent. EUobserver is a online non-profit news outlet reporting on the European Union.
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