(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 25 - Consumer associations are preparing for protest initiatives throughout Italy against expensive energy and the price emergency, also involving trade unions and the world of agriculture, industry, crafts and business.
For next October 18, user organizations have called a large public assembly open to all social forces where they will share the reasons and methods of the initiatives to be implemented in the area and a package of measures to be presented to the new government.
"In the coming months, millions of families will have to deal with the increases in electricity and gas bills and with food prices in continuous rise, rising by an average of 10.5%, while many small and medium-sized enterprises find themselves crushed by costs for procurement of raw materials and energy that have become unsustainable - write Adiconsum, Adoc, Adusbef, Assoutenti, Consumer House, Cittadinanzattiva, Codacons, Codes, Confconsumatori, Ctcu, Federconsumatori, Legaconsumatori, Movimento Difesa del Cittadino, MovimentoConsumatori, Udicon, Associazione Users Radiutto this produces very negative cascading effects on the economy and society with the closure of thousands of helicopter activities for hundreds of thousands of workers, while Istat draws attention tolooming risk of relative poverty for almost a quarter of the Italian population "." The measures adopted so far have unfortunately proved insufficient to deal with a situation that appears to be worsening, and some highlight implementation problems that need to be urgently corrected, such as the taxation of super-profits of companies producing and supplying energy goods , while the energy emergency plan for next winter remains in the background, with the hypothesis of gas rationing despite the directives on saving consumption ". A very delicate situation that today leads consumer associations to announce mobilization and protest initiatives for the months of October and November which will be activated nationally and which will also involve workers and production activities. (ANSA).