{"id":368057,"date":"2024-06-07T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/07\/gentiloni-potere-dacquisto-famiglie\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:31:30","slug":"gentiloni-defend-the-purchasing-power-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/07\/gentiloni-defend-the-purchasing-power-of-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentiloni: &#8220;Defend the purchasing power of families.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211;\u00a0First, COVID-19, then the high utility bills following the Russian war in Ukraine, tensions with Moscow, and finally, rising inflation. For the European Economy Commissioner, <strong>Paolo Gentiloni<\/strong>, &#8220;it is not possible to estimate&#8221; how much all this affected household wealth and how much any losses have been counter-balanced by the measures launched both at the EU and national levels. But one thing is sure: we need to <strong>defend the purchasing power of Europeans.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-9-2024-000412_EN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a parliamentary question<\/a>, the Commission emphasized\u00a0that\u00a0it has &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">advocated <strong>that Member States<\/strong>, in accordance with national practices and respecting the role of social partners, <strong>support wage developments that mitigate purchasing power losses, especially for low-income earners.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Labor market, and consequently wages, are the responsibility of the member states. It means that the Commission can do little. But, Gentiloni again points out, there is always the\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/economy_finance\/country-specific-recommendations-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country-specific recommendations<\/a>&#8216; card, which with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/29\/new-stability-pact-goes-into-effect-yes-also-from-the-council-italys-green-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new stability pact<\/a> will not be able to be ignored. The EU executive &#8220;has\u00a0<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">formulated a set of <strong>country-specific recommendations addressing poverty<\/strong>, social inclusion, and social protection.&#8221; Based on these, governments are and will be called upon to work to protect the wealth and purchasing power of households in all member states.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economy Commissioner urges to prevent the creation of new poor, focuses on low-income families<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":368052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25983,26107,25883,28139,28140],"class_list":["post-368057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-families-en","tag-inflation-en","tag-paolo-gentiloni-en","tag-power-purchase-en","tag-salari-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368057"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369335,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368057\/revisions\/369335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}