French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde takes a stroll through the aisles of a Parisian supermarket, checking as she goes to see if the actual prices of the store’s dairy products match prices recorded in a recent French consumer’s report. The verdict? It appears that shelf prices are actually lower than what was listed in the report. But the French can rest assured that this won’t stop the government’s investigation into the country’s rising food prices.
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Caption 23 [fr]: Ils'agit de savoir à qui profite la hausse des prix. Caption 23 [en]: The point is to find out who's profiting from the price increases.
The first in a trilogy of segments from Le Journal on the same subject, this video discusses the emergency measures called for by the French government, which has brought together a task force to deal with rising food prices in French stores.
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Caption 13 [fr]: Ils'agit de voir où sont les abus, Caption 13 [en]: It's a question of seeing where the abuses are,