The rise in price in classic Easter products, such as eggs and chocolates, makes the Germans wonder about the credibility of the European Central Bank. These days German media have found a new protagonist for their reports. The chocolate bunny, which makes children’s shawls run, has been at the heart of interest. Or to be precise, not the bunny itself, but its price, like all kinds of chocolate, since prices seem extremely high than what the average German consumer remembers.

“He was raging his ears” this year the financial weekly Wirtschaftswoche wrote sarcastic. The rise in chocolate price is a global phenomenon, as is the global lack of eggs due to the flu of poultry in the US, which has led to a huge shortage and forced Americans to eagerly seek “aid” from abroad. In Germany there is no such shortage in quantity, but here the prices are up for a kind of “essential” on Easter.

How do they make such numbers?

The Hamburg Consumers Association recorded increases of 10% in species that cannot be missed from the Easter table, while for some products one of the good “labels” in the chocolate field it measured values ​​up to 22% higher than last year. The problem is serious for households, because it is certainly not limited to sweets and eggs.

The Conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine arrived on Holy Thursday, the day of the Board of Directors of the European Central Bank, to directly linked it to the decision to reduce interest rates, which in turn is based on the official recession of inflation in Germany, as well as in other eurozone countries at 2%. So he was wondering the relevant article if the ordinary citizen can trust these official statistics, when what he experiences daily in supermarkets is quite different. Experience that is not unknown to consumers in Greece.

Whatever is high, stays high

The newspaper was trying to explain to its readers what politicians often avoid doing. That is, inflation can fall, but the perched prices do not subside. He said that, for example, from 2022 to the present, the consumption price index has risen by 12.1% and from 2020 to the present day by 20.8%. It is therefore not paradoxical to seek unions around 8%. (FAZ doesn’t say that). In Germany, concern for the steady rise in prices in recent years remains one of the key issues that concerns citizens in all polls in relation to the future.

The ECB technocrats in Frankfurt, on their part, call “populism” to focus on some products, whose prices can go too far because of some times or just seasonal.

That is, they admit that the price of cocoa has recently risen, which has happened to other species, such as butter (+24%!), Olive oil or oranges, but their own indicators are based on much more parameters. This, of course, is not a consolation for those children this year that Grandma bought a smaller chocolate egg or bunny. If he bought them at all …