General Article ‘People buy spectacularly less’: inflation-hit Europe weighs costs ahead of elections

Topic Selected: Cost-of-Living Crisis Book Volume: 448

Governments have tried to ease the pain from record-high inflation that has swept Europe. But they failed to tame a major inflation driver in corporate ‘greedflation’. Now European elections approach with the cost-of-living crisis high on agendas.

By Pascal Hansens and Attila Kálmán

On paper, Europe’s inflation crisis is easing. Rates have dropped from double digit highs of 2022, and the OECD said in May that inflation was ‘falling faster than initially projected and private sector confidence...

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