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Inflation on the rise in France, driven by rising cost of food and energy

Groceries at the cash register in a supermarket in Nice, southern France. The cost of food has been on the rise for months in France, with record high inflation in the Euro zone driven by the war in Ukraine. © Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Inflation is creeping up in France, as it is in many parts of the world, but economists point out that not all prices are increasing. However, consumers are feeling the pinch, because the products that are most impacted are daily necessities, like petrol and food.

“Today we have a very particular inflation, in that it is not all prices that are rising, but only certain ones,” said economist Eric Heyer, of the OFCE at Sciences Po in Paris.

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