The opaque reflection of the war settles on the fragile economies, and in Calabria it immediately becomes a negative substance in the costs, in the bills, in the margins that are thinning until they disappear. Small and medium-sized businesses, already tested by years of intermittent contractions and restarts, are forced to move against the grain amidst production schemes that can no longer withstand the impact of a market marked by continuous tensions. Energy, the first variable among others, has once again become the center of gravity of the crisis.
Hyperinflation fueled by energy price increases is not an abstract fact, but a daily pressure that affects sales, price lists and the very ability to stay on the market. The instability of trade routes also weighs heavily: the Hormuz node, with its increasingly uncertain passages, is not a distant issue, but a sensitive point on which a decisive part of global balances depends. The prices of natural gas and electricity have reopened a wound that had never really healed, widening the hole in an already exposed production structure.
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