Today in Italy: A Roundup of the Latest News on Friday
Conftrasporto reports diesel prices rose over 50 cents a litre, fueling road blockades and supply shortages as truckers protest rising operational costs and insufficient government support, unions said.
- Truckers in southern Italy began blocking roads on Friday, protesting soaring diesel costs and widespread fuel shortages across Puglia, with lorry blockades expected to spread to Calabria and Sicily.
- Hauliers' association Conftrasporto said diesel prices rose by more than 50 cents a litre since the war in Iran began, and promised government funding set aside in May has yet to arrive.
- Nearly every petrol station around Foggia in Puglia was out of fuel, with most stations in Cosenza and Catanzaro in Calabria reporting similar shortages, Ansa reported.
- The transport ministry summoned hauliers to a meeting on Tuesday, October 27th after the association threatened to "grind to a halt" the country with a national stoppage.
- Beyond the trucking protests, wider labor disruptions struck Italy on Friday as state school staff held a national strike and easyJet employees staged a 24-hour walkout.
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PentapostagmaTruck owners call for new government intervention to reduce fuel prices
Tafuni (Acar): Two thousand euros more per month for each medium. Ragone asks the Region for a permanent technical table to face the increases and get concrete answers. L'articolo Transporters in piazza a Bari: "The dear fuel will fall on the consumers" comes from The Truth.
The forgotten protests: empty shelves and blocked roads in southern Italy, ignored by the media, reveal neglect by Meloni and EU
Empty shelves and too-expensive fuel stocks are the last drop in a sea of negligence faced by southern Italians every day. Life at Europe's edges has left many feeling failed by their government, while EU policies could be making things worse.
Distributors without fuel, long queues and difficulties in supermarket supplies. The protest of farmers and haulers against expensive fuel continues to put under pressure...
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