French President Emmanuel Macron said that food prices in France will remain high until early autumn. It has been reported Parisian.
“Honestly, food prices will be high by the end of summer,” Macron said.
At the same time, he added that the minimum wage continues to rise in France and other wages should be increased after that, a topic currently under discussion in the French government.
Earlier, according to the French National Institute of Statistics (Insee), it was known that there is consumer inflation in France in February 2023. accelerated It rose to 6.2% from 6% in January.
Analysts surveyed by the DailyFx portal predicted a 6.1% price increase. In February 2022, annual inflation was 3.6%.
Le Monde newspaper, citing the data of the research company IRI in the first half of February, wrote that food prices in France increased by 13.8 percent on average in January 2023 compared to January 2022.