{"id":460995,"date":"2026-07-24T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/24\/lagarde-avverte-sul-caro-spesa-rischio-rincari-dei-prodotti-alimentari-piu-del-previsto\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:56:19","slug":"lagarde-warns-about-rising-grocery-costs-risk-of-food-prices-increasing-more-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/lagarde-warns-about-rising-grocery-costs-risk-of-food-prices-increasing-more-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagarde warns about rising grocery costs: “Risk of food prices increasing more than expected”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Bad news for families and consumers: grocery shopping and eating out are at serious risk of becoming even more expensive. \u201cExtreme weather events, as demonstrated by the current heatwaves, and more generally the ongoing climate and environmental crises, could cause food prices to rise more than expected<\/strong>.” It was a brief yet clear statement by the President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde<\/strong>, during the extensive press conference explaining the Governing Council\u2019s interest rate decisions. The decision to leave them unchanged, accompanied by a presentation of forecasts that are not exactly rosy,<\/a> touched on an issue that is not currently in the spotlight but risks becoming increasingly so. <\/p>\n

Lagarde had already warned<\/a> that by 2027,  the cost of the shopping basket was likely to force people to rethink their spending on lunches and dinners. Still, a new factor has now been added to these warnings: even steeper price rises that are exceeding expectations. This is because the situation is becoming increasingly out of control, with tensions in the Middle East and Iran that are no less difficult to manage, and this, too, is driving up supermarket bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rise in energy prices since the start of the conflict (in Iran, ed)  \u2013 and its impact on food<\/strong>, goods and services price inflation \u2013 is likely to keep inflation well above target into the first half of 2027,\u201d Lagarde explained. And this is where the other warning for the public came in: \u201cIt is becoming more expensive for firms to source inputs and they therefore expect to put up their selling prices.<\/strong>\u201d This could also be felt more acutely on store shelves, with rising food costs adding to the high energy bills that have already materialised in the wake of the war in Iran<\/a>, with the resulting repercussions for the economy. Faced with more expensive shopping carts, households would cut back on spending elsewhere.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ECB President warns of the consequences of the current heatwave and the war in Iran. \u201cRising energy prices are having an impact on food costs\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":460975,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","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","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26788,25983,26787,26107],"class_list":["post-460995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-consumi-en","tag-families-en","tag-food","tag-inflation-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460995","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=460995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460996,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460995\/revisions\/460996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}