Europe, Russia and the Inflation Test: When Energy Shocks Become Entrenched - indrastra.com

ECB and Russia face different inflation risks as energy shocks test monetary policy, inflation expectations and the threat of second-round effects. Euro area inflation stood at 2.0 percent in August 2025, exactly on the 2 percent target of the European Central Bank (ECB), according to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office . A year later, in the final estimate published on September 17, 2026, it stood at 3.2 percent. A last-mile race that is then lost is a different problem from one that never closes, and the difference decides what central banks should do next. The story now circulating says that disinflation has stalled in its final stretch and that governments are leaning on central banks to cut too soon.