Inflation in Spain rises to 3.6% in July, worst rate in over two years

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Aug 13, 2026 · 401 words · By Javier Iniguez De Onzono

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Spain has logged five months in a row of annual inflation above 3%, driven by costlier electricity and fuel as the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz persists.

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What happened

Spain has logged five months in a row of annual inflation above 3%, driven by costlier electricity and fuel as the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz persists.

Why it matters

In July, power prices top €100 per MWh, the highest year-on-year figure since 2022.

Common ground

The second biggest concern for Spaniards, after housing, is the performance of the economy, which continues to deteriorate in light of the latest data published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that The cost of the average shopping basket fell by three-tenths of a point in July?
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Causal Oversimplification 70% confidence

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Why it matters: Recognizing causal oversimplification helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The cost of the average shopping basket fell by three-tenths of a point in July”

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The specific claim that the shopping basket fell by 0.3 points in July is not corroborated by the other provided evidence, which discusses general price increases since the pre-Covid era.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shopping Basket. Never in recent history has it been so expensive for Spanish families to feed themselves. Since the pre-Covid era, the cost of the average shopping basket has skyrocketed by a dramati…
https://spain-news.es/price-shock-in-spain-shopping-basket-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — Cost of Living Estimator. Market Basket Comparison by City.These indexes are historical and are published periodically, providing a snapshot of the data at a specific point in time. Select date
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js…

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web search NEUTRAL — Comparison of worldwide cost of living. in the Bermudas is the most expensive place to live, in Nigeria the cheapest. In our comparison of 175 countries around the globe, the United States is in 15th …
https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php

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Claim 2: “Electricity prices in July are hovering at around €105 per megawatt hour”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that electricity prices in July remained at around €105 per megawatt-hour.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On Monday, 28 April 2025, at 12:33 CEST (11:33 WEST; 10:33 UTC), a major power blackout occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting mainland Portugal and peninsular Spain, where electric power was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Concentrated solar power (CSP), also called concentrating solar power or concentrated solar thermal, involves systems that collect solar heat for multiple purposes like cooking, desalination, or the g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant is a mothballed nuclear power station at Santa María de Garoña, Burgos (Spain). It consists of one boiling water reactor (BWR) of 466 megawatts (MWe). The rea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_María_de_Garoña_Nuclear_…

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Claim 3: “In July, power prices top €100 per MWh, the highest year-on-year figure since 2022.”

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Two separate web search results explicitly state that electricity prices in July were around €105 per MWh and that this represents the highest year-on-year figure since 2022.

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Claim 4: “the year-on-year rate [for food] was 1.6%, three-tenths of a point below the June rate and a low not seen since 2021”

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The specific figure of 1.6% for food inflation in July and the comparison to June and 2021 are only present in one source and not corroborated by other evidence.

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web search NEUTRAL — Inflation Rate in the United States decreased to 3.40 percent in July from 3.50 percent in June of 2026. This page provides - United States Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, c…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

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web search NEUTRAL — The lowest ever US inflation rate YoY is −15.80%. How has US inflation rate YoY changed over time?
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/ECONOMICS-USIRYY/

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web search NEUTRAL — Forward Flat Rate Inflation Calculator. Calculates an inflation based on a certain average inflation rate after some years.
https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html

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Claim 5: “The agency's figures downgraded its July forecast by a tenth of a point and confirmed that inflation rose to 3.6%.”

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Multiple sources confirm that the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported inflation rose to 3.6% in July, with one source specifically mentioning it exceeded estimates.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's 17 autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_lists_of_Spanish_autono…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI from its former name in Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican governmen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Statisti…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Statistics Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE) is the official government agency in Spain that collects statistics about demography, the economy, and Spanish socie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Statistics_Institute_…

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Claim 6: “The Economy Ministry, headed by Carlos Cuerpo, has announced that since the year-on-year increase in diesel exceeded 15% last month by seven-tenths of a point, an automatic cut in the hydrocarbons tax has been triggered: 20 cents, instead of 5, will be deducted for every litre consumed.”

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The specific details regarding Carlos Cuerpo, the 15% diesel increase threshold, and the 20-cent tax cut are not corroborated by any other independent source in the provided evidence. Other search results discuss diesel taxes in Ireland and Greece, not Spain.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spain has a highly developed social market economy. It is the world's 14th-largest by nominal GDP, the fourth-largest in the EU, and the sixth-largest in Europe. Spain is a member of the European Unio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Spain

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Economy (Spanish: Ministerio de Economía) of Argentina is the country's state treasury and a ministry of the national executive power that manages economic policy. The Ministry of Econ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy_(Argentina…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise (MINECO) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on economic affairs, through reform…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy_(Spain)

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Claim 7: “Spain has logged five months in a row of annual inflation above 3%”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Spain has logged five consecutive months of inflation above 3%, specifically mentioning the trend since September 2023 and again in a report regarding July inflation.

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web search NEUTRAL — Chart: Monthly Inflation Rates and Annual Inflation Rates in the United States.Table: 1-Month and 12-Month Inflation Rates (2014-2026). To present the data in a different format, the following table d…
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl…

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web search NEUTRAL — This 3% is the highest CPI value since June 2024 and inflation has now been rising for five consecutive months.This is the lowest underlying inflation rate since December 2021, before the price crisis…
https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/inflation-rises-slightly-…

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web search NEUTRAL — This was after being above this threshold for five consecutive months, since September 2023. In February, inflation fell by six-tenths to 2.8%, due to the fall in electricity and food prices.
https://inspain.news/inflation-in-spain-rose-in-march-due-to…

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Claim 8: “This is the worst figure recorded since May 2024.”

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While the 3.6% figure is corroborated, the specific claim that this is the 'worst figure recorded since May 2024' is only found in one source. Other sources mention it is the worst in 'two years' or 'over two years', which creates a slight discrepancy in the specific timeframe mentioned in the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A general election was held in Spain on 23 July 2023 to elect the members of the 15th Cortes Generales under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for ele…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Spanish_general_election

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