"With the current abnormal energy prices, eroded margins, the scarcity of commodities and the increase in infections, the risk is that the GDP will suffer a stop in the first quarter: at least -0.8% the impact of the cost- energy on GDP of 2022 ", warns the Confindustria Study Center.
"The rise in energy prices - the economists of via dell'Astronomia point out - affects the Italian industry" while "the high contagions slow down the consumption of services".
We are witnessing a "high-risk recovery. At the beginning of 2022 the clouds became thicker, having already thickened at the end of 2021 on the recovery of the Italian GDP, estimated to slow down in the fourth quarter".
