Communication: French downgrade consumption should be inflation -one of the European economies

Xinhua News Agency, Paris, August 17th.

Ni Peiyu Liu Fang

Faced with the continuous soaring prices, 33-year-old Frenchman Marion Faval-Ji Yong chose to go to a market with less commodity prices to buy fruits and vegetables. She bluntly said: "That way, it is a disaster."

Since September last year, French consumer price index (CPI) increased in a row, with a year -on -year increase of 5.2%, from 5.8%in June, and 6.1%in July, all since 1985.

According to data from the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Research, in July, the price of goods that French people often purchased in supermarkets accelerated for the eighth consecutive month, and food prices rose 6.8%year -on -year, of which meat, milk eggs and their products, bread and bread and their products, bread and bread and their products, bread and bread and bread and bread The prices of cereals rose 8.8%, 8%, and 7.6%, respectively.

Affected by factors such as rising raw material prices, rising shipping costs, and hindering global supply chains, small appliances such as coffee machines, electric kettles, baked noodles, and various family lifestyle prices have increased or even higher than the inflation rate.

The 67 -year -old Lyon Melneyian told reporters that he moved from Lebanon to Paris 9 years ago. He has not lived in his life. He has only bought food in cheap supermarkets since this year. 100 euros, desserts and the like occasionally rewarding their "little luck", now they have been given up.

The French economy generally believes that inflation will continue to rise. French economy, finance and industry, and digital sovereign Minister Bruno Lermel previously predicts that French inflation will reach the peak in mid -2023 and then start to lower.

Due to the rise in air tickets, car rental, hotels, catering prices, local tourism and group travel have become the French vacation trend this summer.

Emmanel, an Exuel resident in Provence, southern France, discussed with friends a few weeks in advance to travel with friends, and eventually went to the Mediterranean Coskijia Island for a few days. "With my economic situation, this summer cannot go out for vacation at all." Emmanier, 51, told reporters.

A few days ago, the French Parliament passed the Government's "Emergency Protection Purchasing Power Act". The French government will support the public through measures such as housing subsidies and oil price subsidies to support the peak of inflation.

As the summer is approaching the end, Faval-Jiyong began to worry about winter heating costs. "The house I live is heating with fuel oil and firewood. Even if one of the government's emergency measures is fuel subsidy, the heating fee is still very expensive."

This winter, more than 3 million French families who use fuel oil will face tremendous pressure. As of May this year, French fuel oil prices rose by 84%.

"We have to manage our daily life. French people need to adapt to the new situation," Melneyian said.

[Editor in charge: Wang Mengmeng]

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