Flag of Italy. File photoROME, Jun 6Italy is facing a situation fraught with a social explosion, Maurizio Landini, general secretary of the country's largest trade union association, the General Italian Confederation of Labor (CGIL), warned. in work and life, which has never been before, about the level of uncertainty, insecurity. In many cases, during these years, government spending on ensuring social guarantees was also reduced — from the right to health to the right to school education, «the leader of the CGKT told reporters in Monday during a trade union demonstration in Turin.» It is clear that it is fundamentally important for us to focus on the problems of work, the fight against part-time employment, attention to the needs of people — from the right to housing to the possibility of vocational training. The time has come to make a choice both at the national, and at local levels in this direction. hopes that politics should return to dealing with the material needs of the people,» Landini emphasized, a video of whose speech was posted by the TorinoToday online publication. Many local experts note that as a result of the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions in connection with the conflict in Ukraine, the socio-economic situation in Italy has deteriorated markedly. According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), in May, inflation was 6.9% on an annualized basis. The rise in prices continues for the eleventh month in a row, and such a high figure has not been recorded in the last 36 years. Vice-President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) Giovanni Baroni warned that many small and medium-sized enterprises in Italy were threatened with closure due to significant price increases for natural gas and other raw materials. And a study prepared at the end of May by Confindustria experts shows that the refusal to import gas from the Russian Federation will lead to such a «shock» that the country's GDP in 2022-2023 will lose approximately 2% per year.
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