On an annual average in 2014, the consumer prices in Germany rose 0.9% on 2013. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the year-on-year rate of price increase has been decreasing since 2011 (2011: +2.1%; 2012: +2.0%; 2013: +1.5%). A lower annual average rate of price increase was last observed in 2009 (+0.3%). The moderate year-on-year rate of price increase in 2014 was mainly due to low inflation rates in the second half of the year. In December 2014, the inflation rate as measured by the consumer price index was +0.2% on December 2013. Compared with November 2014, the overall index remained ... (full story)