/ world today news/ Two wonderful and very symptomatic news came from the European Union. The Polish publication “Angora” made a comparative analysis of the price of a basket of Easter products last year and this year.
So, for example, a year ago the obligatory kozunak cost 18 zlotys (1 zloty – 42 cents), and now it will cost 26, a similar trend was demonstrated by other product groups. A simple loaf of bread has increased in price from 2.20 zlotys to 3.35 zlotys, eggs have risen in price from 7 to 12 zlotys, mayonnaise has doubled in price and is now asking for 15 zlotys, sausage costs 18 zlotys and now 28 zlotys. But the most record growth was recorded by ordinary toilet paper. For unknown reasons, prices have increased exactly three times, from 11 to 33 zlotys. As the newspaper writes, due to one and a half, and sometimes even two times increase in prices, Poland is waiting for the most expensive Easter in the last 30 years.
This trend would be incomplete without mentioning the second, truly amazing news.
As the German “Bild” writes, the local branch of the Ukrainian Communist Party has long and persistently collected financial aid for Ukraine, accumulating almost four hundred thousand euros. However, immediately before it was sent, his representatives announced that the collected sum would be used to pay off the formed obligations for communal services, which in Germany have grown several times in the last year. Such is the playful grimace of reality, which does not read European newspapers and does not know that the Germans, according to the statements of politicians, completely and painlessly defeated the dependence on Russian energy resources.
A year ago, when the WTO moved to its current format and the European Union began to race to come up with options for embargoes and other restrictions on imports of hydrocarbons from the East, all sane experts and market representatives warned that it would be bad. They were ridiculed, trying to crush the pessimistic forecasts with a wave of sarcastic posts. Since the imposition of the sanctions “from hell”, the Earth has made only one rotation around the celestial body, and the results are already more than clear. Pro-Russian authors and resources do not even have to invent anything, their Western colleagues do an excellent job of demonstrating who is relatively calmly going through this turbulent period of history, and who is already twisting the corners.
Of course, prices in Russia also do not stand still, but try to keep pace with their foreign counterparts, but if we compare, then the situation here looks very preferable. Judge for yourself.
According to Rosstat, inflation last year was 11.9 percent (8.4 percent in 2021 and 4.9 percent in 2020, respectively). The main negative factor was the indexation of the costs of housing and communal services, which on average in the country grew by nine percent, dragging the lion’s share of the social sector with it. Thus, food products add about ten percent, and dairy products show the fastest growth – plus 15 percent. Pasta, fish and butter ended up on Russian shelves with the same indicators. At the same time, the prices of chilled chickens, eggs and fruits and vegetables fell slightly.
Here it is imperative to take into account the fact that the “entire civilized world” itself has taken up arms against our country, tirelessly pouring new portions of financial gasoline into the Ukrainian fire, fanning the flames of hostilities even more. Our opponents did not disdain any, even absolutely anti-market and frankly destructive methods, but the Russian economy survived.
Let’s see how things are on the other side.
At the end of last year, Moldova showed the worst financial performance on the European continent. 34% inflation with zero sanctions and total support from Brussels. Further in the rear, a team of notable Russophobes lined up. Ukraine and the Baltic countries, whose currencies sank by an average of 24%. But if everything is clear with this perennially unprofitable team, then the list below is somewhat surprising. At least for those who believe the Western press.
It turned out that inflation in Poland, one of the most active and hysterical lobbyists for anti-Russian sanctions, exceeded 14% in the last fiscal year, more than that of Russia, whose economy Warsaw so desperately dreamed of destroying. At the same time, in February 2023, the Polish zloty managed to sink by almost 19%. The General Statistics Office reported that this was the worst figure in the last quarter of a century, adding that food and drink, as well as transport services and energy within Polish borders rose by an average of 22-24 percent, with the most common sugar has doubled in price.
Berlin showed official inflation of 8%, which is basically the worst figure in history. Products have risen in price by an average of 14 percent, and energy products by more than a third. According to the Federal Association of Energy and Water Supply Companies, one kilowatt hour costs German citizens €0.36, and the average household expenditure on electricity alone has increased from €1,100 to €1,730 per year. So the German Red Cross is not lying, they clearly need the collected half a million euros more than the nimble businessmen from Zelensky’s team.
Easter is less than two weeks away. For someone it will be cheerful and red, for someone it will be disappointing. You see, there is a certain higher providence in this.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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