(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 24 - "A major transparency operation at the national level to show citizens and bar and restaurant adventurers in what dramatic situation companies are forced to operate".
This is "Featured bills": in the next few days the managers of public establishments associated with Fipe-Confcommercio will receive a frame to hang in their premises, to display the latest gas and electricity bills.
"Monstre bills, tripled compared to a year ago due to the surge in gas prices.
A situation that - it is emphasized - is forcing merchants to choose between price increases, hitherto low, and suspension of activity pending intervention resolutive by the government ".
Meanwhile, the 'Don't payUk' protest has started in Great Britain, the initiative that has already collected on its website 113,637 adhesions from British people who intend to stop paying their energy bills.
The idea - it is explained on the website - is to reach 1 million adhesions and a large demonstration, a march, to be done before 1 October when a wave of further increases will be triggered.
At the beginning of the month, the Bank of England revised its estimates on inflation in the United Kingdom, making them rise, by the end of 2022, to 13%.
Inflation rose above estimates to 10.1% in July.
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