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In the first quarter of 2026, the EU seasonally adjusted current account of the balance of payments recorded a surplus of €113.4 billion (+2.4% of GDP), compared with a surplus of €99.2 billion (+2.1% of GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2025 and a surplus of €104.9 billion (+2.3% of GDP) in the firs...
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The household saving rate in the euro area stayed stable at 14.3% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, which is explained by consumption and gross disposable income increasing at about the same rate (respectively +0.8% and +0.7%).
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Euro area unemployment at 6.2%

Jul 2, 2026
Eurostat
In May 2026, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2%, stable compared with April 2026 and down from 6.3% in May 2025. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in May 2026, also stable compared with April 2026 and down from 6.0% in May 2025. These figures are published by Eurostat, t...
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In the first quarter of 2026, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, increased by 4.7% in the euro area and by 5.1% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 5.1% and 5.4% in the euro area and EU, respectiv...
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.8% in June 2026, down from 3.2% in May according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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In April 2026, compared with March 2026, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In March 2026, production in construction grew by 1.7% in the...
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The euro area annual inflation rate was 3.2% in May 2026, up from 3.0% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 1.9%. European Union annual inflation was 3.3% in May 2026, up from 3.2% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 2.2%. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of th...
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In the first quarter of 2026 the hourly labour costs rose by 3.2% in the euro area and by 3.6% in the EU, compared with the same quarter of the previous year. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.3%

Jun 16, 2026
Eurostat
In the first quarter of 2026, the job vacancy rate was 2.3% in the euro area, up from 2.2% in the fourth quarter of 2025 and down from 2.4% in the first quarter of 2025, according to the figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The job vacancy rate in the EU wa...
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €1.0 bn deficit in trade in goods with the rest of the world in April 2026, compared with a surplus of €8.7 bn in April 2025.
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In April 2026, compared with March 2026, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In March 2026, industrial production grew by 0.4% in the euro area and b...
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In the first quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU rose by 5.1%, while rents increased by 3.0% compared with the first quarter of 2025. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.2% and rents by 0.7%.  Between 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU...
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Evolution of fuel prices in May 2026

Jun 22, 2026
Eurostat
In May 2026, the price of fuels and lubricants for personal transport in the EU increased by 20.7% compared with May 2025, following a 12.9% rise in March 2026 and 20.8% in April, compared with the same months in 2025. Up to February 2026, these prices were generally decreasing for both the EU av...
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In 2025, price levels for household final consumption expenditure differed widely across EU countries, ranging from 140% to 63% of the EU average. The highest price levels for household consumption were recorded in Denmark (140% of the EU average), Ireland (136%) and Luxembourg (132%). Meanwhile,...
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In 2025, actual individual consumption (AIC) per capita expressed in purchasing power standard (PPS) varied from 73% to 145% of the EU average across the 27 EU countries.  This information comes from recently published data on purchasing power parities (PPPs). This article presents a handful of t...
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Across the EU, the structure of general government gross debt differs significantly between countries. These differences relate for example to the initial and remaining maturity of debt, the debt instruments used and the main institutional sectors holding the debt. However, when considering the c...
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In the first quarter of 2026, labour productivity in the EU increased slightly by 0.1% based on both persons and hours worked, compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the fourth quarter of 2025, labour productivity had increased by 0.8% based on persons and 0.7% based on hours wor...
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In April 2026, the price of fuels and lubricants for personal transport in the EU increased by 20.8% compared with April 2025, following a rise of 12.9% in March 2026 compared with the same month of 2025. Up to February 2026, the price of fuels and lubricants in the EU was generally decreasing fo...
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Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with monthly and quarterly indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work. This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members...
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In the fourth quarter of 2025, the EU business investment rate reached 21.8%, the lowest point since the third quarter of 2015. Since 2014, the EU’s non-financial corporation investment rate has shown 2 clear trends, with notable spikes. Between 2014 and 2018, the investment rate rose steadily fr...
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In 2023, EU exports of pharmaceutical products to non-EU countries supported the employment of 926 000 people in the EU, representing 4.3‰ (per mille) of total EU employment. Both the number of workers and their share of total employment reached their highest levels in 2023. These figures include...
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In connection with the news releases for the Excessive deficit procedure (EDP) and the Government finance statistics (GFS) published today, a series of related documents have been updated: Note on the stock of liabilities in trade credits and advances;  Stock-flow adjustment note explaining the l...
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The households sector debt is the stock of liabilities held by the sectors Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.14_S.15). The instruments taken into account to compile the household sector debt are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Data are presented in consolidated t...
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The non-financial corporations debt excluding foreign direct investment indicator represents the net amount of liabilities in which the sector non-financial corporations (S.11) have incurred along the year, minus foreign direct investments (FDI). The instruments that are taken into account to ...
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The non-financial corporations debt is the stock of debt of the sector non-financial corporations (S11). It is expressed as percentage of GDP. The instruments taken into account to compile this indicator are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Data are presented in consolidated terms (meaning ...
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The private sector debt is the stock of liabilities held by the sectors Non-Financial corporations, Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.11_S.14_S.15). The instruments that are taken into account to compile private sector debt are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Dat...
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The private sector credit flow represents the net amount of liabilities which the sectors Non-Financial corporations, Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.11_S.14_S.15) have incurred along the year. The instruments that are taken into account to compile private sector cred...
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