{"id":470975,"date":"2026-11-12T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/12\/kallas-guerra-ed-el-nino-si-sono-gia-tradotti-in-aumento-dei-prezzi-dei-generi-alimentari\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:19:29","slug":"kallas-war-and-el-nino-are-already-translating-into-increased-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/kallas-war-and-el-nino-are-already-translating-into-increased-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallas: “War and El Ni\u00f1o are already translating into increased food prices”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 War and bad weather: the perfect storm for the cost of living. “The disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the blockage of the Black Sea route due to Russian
\nattacks are aggravated by the impending strong El Ni\u00f1o event,\u201d acknowledges the EU\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, who warns: \u201cThis is already translating into increased food prices.<\/strong>\u201d This is not good news for families, consumers and retailers, who face the serious risk of price rises. Food prices, Kallas adds, \u201ccould peak in the 2nd quarter of 2027 at around 11 per cent above<\/strong> the
\n3rd quarter 2026 levels.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

In short, by June 2027, grocery shopping risks becoming unaffordable compared with what consumers paid at checkout at the end of September this year. The alarm bells are being sounded in the response to a parliamentary question<\/a> tabled by Sebasti\u00e3o Bugalho (EPP), a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It is here that the Commission is being asked to account for the war’s impact on food security. The response provided by the High Representative serves once again to reiterate that, for the European Commission, conflict and instability in the Persian Gulf are attributable to Russia rather than to the United States and Israel that started the war, demonstrating the EU executive\u2019s inability to be firm and decisive with the powerful, and confirming the double standards in foreign policy. <\/p>\n

However, Kallas assures that the EU remains vigilant and proactive on food and food inflation. \u201cThe issue of food security, due to global trade disruptions, has been discussed during the meetings with the United Nations, with the African Union and within G7 and G20 formats.\u201d The EU will continue to keep a close eye on the situation, the High Representative said, but in the meantime, the spectre of rising living costs is becoming ever closer and more real. This is not good news.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: \u201cThe peak is expected in June 2027. We are heading towards an 11 per cent increase compared with September 2026 levels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":463249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"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":[25709],"tags":[34543,32858,33830,33264,33394],"class_list":["post-470975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","tag-el-nino","tag-inflazione-alimentare","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-stretto-di-hormuz","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470975","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=470975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470976,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470975\/revisions\/470976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}