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This article was published on December 27, 2014 at 13:58.
Before Spain, Italy second and third Ireland. For once, just last Germany … Too bad it’s a ranking to be read backwards. The three countries on the podium, in fact, are the ones who, between 2010 and 2014, recorded the largest increase in public tariffs: + 23.7% in Spain; + 19.1% tied to Italy and Ireland. And Germany? Only 4.2%. And Greece, say, the sick man of these years, he just recorded a +6.1. The euro area average was instead of +11.8%.
A rattle off these figures is one of the usual weekly reports of CGIA Mestre (the association of craftsmen and small enterprises), the whose research department has lined the increases for public services, using the harmonized index of consumer prices HICP. According to the secretary of the CGIA, Giuseppe Bortolussi, “the highest increases have affected local rates. If as regards water prices charged are still among the lowest in Europe, the increases from waste are unjustifiable. Because of the economic crisis, in the last 7 years there has been a real vertical drop household consumption and business: consequently also decreased the amount of waste produced. Therefore, with less garbage to be collected and disposed of, rates had come down, however, have increased. In the last year, as a result of the transition from the Tares Tari, Italians have even paid 12.2% more, compared to an inflation which has increased by only 0.3%. ”
The Codacons has calculated, however, how much they cost to citizens only the increases in 2014.
According to the Consumers’ Association is a blow from 324 € per family due to increased national and local rates. “Scores of price increases – says the Codacons – we find the waste, whose rates throughout underwent average increases of 15% over last year, resulting in a greater outlay of around 44 euro per family. Heavy water also increased (+ 6%) and health services (5.2%). Transport (urban and rail) mark instead an average increase of 2.9% compared to 2013. “
The office studies Cgia has instead lined up the evolution of the costs of the services provided in Italy, this time with reference to the period of time between 2004 and the first eleven months of 2014. The drinking water was increased by 79.5% in less than ten years, the collection of waste 70.8%, electricity 48.2%, 46.5% of the tolls, gas by 42.9% and urban transport by 41.6 percent. It’s the same Cgia, however, to point out that “for the items drinking water, road tolls and urban transport – due to changes in the survey by Istat (in 2011) – the price changes were calculated to including entries in question to the most directly comparable (respectively supplying water, tolls and parking meters, multimodal transport passengers). ” The list continues with taxis (+ 31.6%), postal services (+ 27.9%). Only happy note for consumers, phone services, plummeted in almost ten years of 15.8 percent.
On the dynamics of prices, Bortolussi emphasizes that ‘the increases of gas have certainly affected by the cost of raw materials and the exchange rate, while the power of the trend of oil prices and the increase general system costs, in particular for the coverage of the incentive schemes of the sources innovabili. Urban transport, however, were affected by increases in the cost of
fuel and labor. It should not be forgotten that many price increases are attributable also to the weight tax burden on the rates that, unfortunately, we have reached peaks not found in the rest of Europe. ”
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