October the 3rd, 2026 – PM Andrej Plenković has stated that without government measures, inflation would currently be 7% in Croatia.
The Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS) recently published that the year-on-year inflation rate measured by the consumer price index in September amounted to 4.7 percent, and 0.9 percent compared to August. Poslovni reports that it accelerated by 0.5 percentage points compared to August on an annual basis, and by 0.8 percent compared to July.
Prime Minister Andrej Plenković warned on Friday after a meeting with Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder that without government measures inflation would have been 35 percent higher and would have stood at around seven percent, instead of the 4.7 percent that is the first estimate by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS) for September, Hina reports.
The DZS earlier today published that the year-on-year inflation rate measured by the consumer price index in September amounted to 4.7 percent, and 0.9 percent compared to August. It accelerated by 0.5 percentage points compared to August on an annual basis, and by 0.8 percent compared to July. Energy prices had the greatest impact on the rise in inflation, rising by 20.5 percent year-on-year in September, while food, beverages and tobacco rose by only 0.2 percent, and non-food industrial products fell by 1.4 percent.
“What is good is that other segments are going downwards; there we have succeeded with measures in mitigating the growth. Without government measures, the overall inflation rate would have been 35 percent higher – it would have been around seven percent,” Plenković said in response to journalists’ questions.
He also recalled that prices of motor fuels are lower due to the government’s weekly interventions and stated that at the moment blue diesel is 10 cents cheaper, eurosuper 20 cents cheaper, and eurodiesel as much as 32 cents cheaper than the prices that would have been formed without government measures.
He added that there is still room to mitigate the rise in fuel prices through interventions, because Croatia is in good time asking the European Commission for permission to exceptionally lower excise duties even below the minimum threshold set by European regulations. A new government intervention is expected next Monday.
