Germans forced to eat noodles

 

A report from Eurostat.( EU statistical office) says that according to its data, there was an increase in the number of Germans who did not have enough money for meals comprising of meat, fish, poultry or a vegetarian equivalent every day in 2022,

The new figures, released by German corporate newsroom Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland demonstrated a year-on-year increase of 0.9% to 11.4%, meaning that nearly 10 million people in the most populous EU nation often lacked proper meals.

That number rises to 19.3%, when it comes to single parents, marking a rise of 2.6% compared to the previous year.

The statistics were requested by the opposition Die Linke party.

And, as noted in many pieces on SOYMB, the myopic sticking plaster solution is the one advocated, not the only real solution to this problem and many others, the abolition of capitalism and the introduction of Socialism

.Commenting on the figures, the faction's leader in the Bundestag (parliament), Dietmar Bartsch, called for a temporary suspension of sales tax on essential food items and for the state to control supermarket pricing.

"The supermarket has become a rip-off stronghold," Bartsch said as cited by state media outlet Deutsche Welle, “The higher the prices, the more people resort to eating noodles with ketchup."

He added that children were among the particularly vulnerable groups exposed to the problem, and demanded the introduction of a guaranteed basic child allowance.

Germany, along with a number of EU member states, has been struggling with soaring consumer prices, causing people to cut back on expenses. In June, inflation in the Eurozone’s leading economy hit 6.4% in annual terms.