the effect of price shields on gas and electricity has been massive

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Inflation has affected households very heterogeneously in 2022, according to the OFCE.

Asked about gasoline prices during his visit to the Rungis market on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron called on TotalEnergies to grant a new discount at the pump in order to help the French pass this course of price increases. Inflation, which is now as much supported by agrifood as energy, indeed remains high in France, according to INSEE, it should remain until June around 5%. In this context, while the discussions around the pension reform are slipping and the memory of the “yellow vests” remains vivid, the executive fears more than anything a bout of popular bad humor.

Hence this appeal to the oil group, but also the extension until the end of March of the fuel allowance, which concerns 10 million households, or the reflections around the controversial “anti-inflation basket”. The government is sparing no effort to protect households from the waltz in prices. And this since the end of 2021.

“Support purchasing power”

Thus, according to the calculations of the Observatory…

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