Eurozone inflation slowed slightly last month to 2.5 percent from 2.6 percent in May due to falling energy prices.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was stable at 2.9%, while services inflation remained high at 4.1%, according to official Eurostat data.
It was expected to fall to 2.8%.
Overall, the slowdown in price growth in the 20-nation euro zone will provide some relief to the European Central Bank, which cut interest rates last month, expecting inflation to reach its 2% target by next year.
“Apart from a slight decline in food prices, today's report is effectively a repeat of May's data and should be enough to warrant a pause on rate cuts at the ECB's Governing Council meeting this month,” said Kyle Chapman, currency markets analyst at Ballinger Group.
“With rising wage growth and falling unemployment, the strength of services inflation is starting to become a real concern for policymakers and could act as a barrier to rate cuts.”
“The data confirms that we're not done yet and a linear decline in interest rates is simply not in the cards. There has been no clear downward trend in services inflation this year and the ECB is unlikely to cut rates significantly until a downward trend emerges.”
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Later Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde are scheduled to speak at the European Central Bank's central banking forum in Sintra, Portugal.
Tuesday's flash figures had little impact on the euro, with political uncertainty in France instead taking attention away from monetary policy.
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