Calabria lives the metaphor of the middle earth, suspended between hope and resignation. In the last twelve months, inflation has continued to mock this region, increasingly southern than southern Italy. From August 2025, those few economic certainties that continue to support this region have fallen into the shadows. A bruising scenario, conditioned by the war which quickly changed the characteristics of the global economy, dragging with it a chain of price increases that find their point of fall in fuel. The oil that is struggling to arrive and the Strait of Hormuz that is contracting become multipliers of social unease. Since February, in particular (but it’s not as if things were much better before) inflation has become an evident cost at the fuel pump, in electricity and gas bills or when you have to pay for a healthcare benefit.
According to August Istat data processed by the National Consumers Union, a Calabrian family of two today incurs an additional expense of 792 euros in a year (a sum which, inevitably, increases with the increase in the number of members of the household), compared to the 833 euros of the Italian average. The regional data, however, only partially defines the pressure weighing on domestic budgets: inflation in Calabria has risen to 4%, well above the 3.3% of national growth.
Above all, transport is leading the upward trend. The item relating to the use of personal vehicles, which also includes fuel, recorded an increase of 13.6% in one year in Calabria, compared to the Italian 11.3%.
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