Feb 8 (Reuters) - The cost of store-bought pizza and
quiche in the European Union grew in December by 16% from a year
earlier, the bloc's statistics agency Eurostat said on
Wednesday.
As food lovers in the U.S. prepare to celebrate National
Pizza Day on Feb. 9, EU consumers will have to search deeper in
their pockets to enjoy a slice of Italy's most renowned fast
food.
However, the pizza inflation rate varied wildly across the
EU, with Hungary topping the Eurostat chart with a 46% yearly
price increase, followed by Lithuania and Bulgaria on 39% and
37% respectively.
The smallest price hikes in pizza and quiche, lumped
together in Eurostat's novel indicator, were recorded in
Luxembourg (+7%), Italy (+10%) and France (+13%).
Overall inflation in the euro zone increased in December by
+9.2% year-on-year, with a 13.8% hike in food, alcohol & tobacco
products, the agency reported last month.
Eurostat categorizes "pizza and quiche products" as
including store-bought varieties of "flour based products
prepared with meat, fish, seafood, cheese, vegetables or fruit".
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, editing by Gavin Jones)
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