HE State rule out confirm new measures for lower the price of food. “We have reason to think about it. CPI in food peaked“, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food announced, Louis Planas, after much discussion two hours and a half with all its representatives food chain –supermarkets, distribution, industry and primary sector– ended without any concrete proposals, request to all links in the chain to reflect the prices paid by citizens” positive development of costs production”.
“We are a Special request which is (positive) development of costs, Who is the root of rising food prices, transferred to the prices (…) A positive response was received from all participants. we will be watchmen and I hope this wish is fulfilled,” Planas added. played throughout it speech with the thought that production cost even though it started to fall, first link of the chainemployers COAG and Asaja, They ignored this point. “We have no confirmation of a reduction in production costs that would put us in such a situation,” he said. andoni garciafrom COAG.
Planas didn’t want to dig deeper Possible VAT reduction on meat and fish – as the FIAB asks industry employers– implicitly reject the average even though the government has confirmed that it is “doing something”. monitoring the whole situationThe measures taken in December were correct. Patience is a good virtue and patience and determination must be applied,” he said in another intervention, warning “what aid means for productive sectors and food prices, and secondly, that these measures have a budgetary cost.”
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HE government housing wing Ha criticized Interview with Planas large supermarket chains. “Solution not agree with those who have problems,” he criticized the national spokesperson of Podemos, pablo fernandezbefore announcing that “the solution is to intervene in the public market” beating prices. “You can’t please looters and speculators to stop making so much money or make a little less profit, because they’re going to keep making a profit,” she insisted, despite the same proposal that Yolanda Díaz put forward in December.
PSOE already rejected the limit on staple foods and Podemos proposed a new measure last week: Government 14.4% discount on the price of basic products to bring its price back to pre-war levels in Ukraine, similar to the model applied to fuels part of last year. “We hope that PSOE can negotiate this proposal with us,” said Fernández. When asked about this proposal, Planas said, “We are not dealing with an easy problem as in the case of oil and gas. We analyze all scenarios.” “It’s not a simple process and it requires will and persistence In the measures we have taken,” the minister insisted.