** Prices: Dona (Unc), ‘real sting for family food price increases’ **

“If inflation reached a record since July 1991, over thirty years ago, it is also due to food and non-alcoholic beverages which, with + 5.8%, are in third place among the increases among the spending divisions. , after Housing, water and electricity (+ 28.3%) and Transport (+ 12.1%). This is an increase in the cost of living, just for food and drink, equal to an average of 323 euros per year per family. which rises to 391 for a couple with 1 child, to 434 for a couple with 2 children, 475 for one with 3 children, a real sting “. This was stated by Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union, commenting to the Adnkronos on the ranking of food products which recorded the greatest increases in March. “It is the expensive bills and expensive fuel effect, which in addition to having direct repercussions on the pockets of Italians when they go to fill up with petrol or pay their electricity and gas bills, determines an exponential growth in production and transport costs of companies that, you guess, then pass on the higher costs to the final consumer. In short, in the end, it is always the housewife from Voghera who pays “, continues Dona. “For some specific and limited products, some bad harvests also had an impact, for example durum wheat in Canada and the United States for pasta. But then the war came and, in an already alarming context, beautiful and good speculations were triggered. . It is obvious that for some specific raw materials, such as sunflower oil, for which Russia and Ukraine are the top two exporters in the world and Italy’s top 2 suppliers, there will be inevitable consequences on prices, but the serious fact – denounces Dona – is that some prices have already exploded even before there were any decreases in imports. It is not for nothing that the Antitrust, after our complaint, is investigating the fuel market. For this reason we ask the Draghi Government for new interventions, for example example by extending the 25 cent reduction in excise duties on petrol and diesel even beyond 21 April “.