Investing.com - Greece emerged from 33 months of deflation in December, finally seeing some price increases after a bruising period of economic decline and political upheaval.
Inflation calculated to European Union norms rose 0.4% in December, topping forecasts, official figures showed on Wednesday.
But the headline consumer price index using Greece's local methodology fell 0.2% from a year earlier, slowing from a 0.7% drop in November.
Greece has been in deflation mode for the last two-and-a-half years as wage and pension cuts in return for bailout aid and a protracted recession took a heavy toll on Greek households' income.
Deflation in Greece, which signed up to its first international bailout in 2010, hit its highest level in November 2013, when prices registered a 2.9% year-on-year decline.