Households caught in a pincer movement between increasingly heavy compulsory expenditure and soaring prices
Rent, electricity, telephone: so-called "pre-committed" expenses now absorb around 30% of French people's disposable income. Because these are incompressible, the most vulnerable find themselves trapped by the surge in energy prices and are forced to make sacrifices to pay their bills.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
