Euro, the single currency celebrates its 15th anniversary. Price increases for coffee, pizza and utility bills. But the hi-tech products now cost less – The Messenger

From the coffee to the counter to light and gas bills, petrol to the cinema, going for aspirin and the Big Mac. It is a long list of goods and services over the past 15 years, since the introduction of the euro that took place on the first of January 2002, have seen the rising prices. But there is also someone who has witnessed the opposite phenomenon, in particular, all the electronic compartment, from phones to cameras. And, by 2017, the Canon Rai will cost less than in January 2002, the date of the introduction of the single currency.

There is, after all, who is still in time, as the minimum play in the Lotto, increased from 1.500 lire as of 31 December 2001 to euro round round of the first of January 2002 (as opposed to 0.77 euros as conversion ratio) and, from there, never more to move. It is from that date that the euro is on the bench of the accused as the main reason for the loss of purchasing power of the italians, worsened by the economic crisis that has exacerbated the difficulties of our Country. The criticisms that have been reduced in the last period, thanks to the deflation that has hit the Old continent as the last effect of the global economic crisis.

Going to dig around in the network to search for the prices of the end of 2001, however, as the increases are generalised and in many cases even higher. The annual expenditure for a family with electricity, he explained the Nens, was to 647.000 lire (about 334 euros), while in the past the Authority of the Energy in the last revision of rates has set in 498 euro (+50%); trend is much more content to the gas, with the annual expenditure rose from 1 million and 700 thousand lire to 1,022 euro (+16%). The gasoline has risen, with a location decidedly mixed, which has led it to touch a historic high with peaks of over 2 euro in 2012, about 2,000 lire to euro 1.5 current (+45%), while the cost of everyday life is virtually doubled, from 1,500 lire (0,77 euro) 1.5 euro.

Close to doubling the coffee at the counter (from the 900 lire to 90 cents) and Big Mac (from 4.900 lire to 4.20 euro), while even more has increased: the classic pizza margherita: even with all the caveats territorial of the case, we pass from the media Nens of 6,500 lire (3,36 euro) 2011 to current 7,5 euro, with a rise of 123%.

The positive news coming from virtually all, as you said, by the electronics and telephony, thanks to the boom of online sales, which have further raised competition and lowered the prices. Awesome the gap in television: at the beginning of the years 2000 the top of the range was a 46-inch for which you spent more or less 6.5 million lire; today a smart Tv Full Hd 49 inch (which is one-tenth of the space) costs less than 500 euros. In 2001 to buy a digital camera from 1.9 megapixels resolution (to the top for the period) we wanted to 890.000 lire; today, with around 100 euro there are machines from the 20 megapixel. Practically impossible, since the technological leap, a comparison for the mobile phones, but the Motorola Startac 130, a source of pride for the era, costing over two millions of lire, far more than any of the latest model of iPhone or Samsung that arrives on the market.

then There is the case, singular, of the Fee Rai. Gone up to 113 euros before the maneuver 2016, has been with the one reduced to € 100 for the year just past. From this year will drop further to 90 euros, returning to a lower level of 179.000 lire, you were up until 2001.