By Albin Sybera Growth of the consumer price index (inflation) in Slovakia accelerated to 2.6% year-on-year and 0.3% month-on-month in July. This follows four months of oscillating slightly above 2%. It is 0.5 percentage points up on the June level when inflation returned to a three-year-low, which had also been registered in April. “Food prices rose again slightly m/m, especially [prices] of meat, oils and bread. Due to the holiday season also the prices of non-alcoholic beverages rose, as well as of holiday packages, fuel and entrance fees to swimming pools,” Slovak statisticians highlighted…