French food law will not squeeze shopping budgets, minister says
by Reuters in Paris from Environment | The Guardian on (#488P4)
Introduction of minimum prices in supermarkets aims to increase farmers' incomes
France's agriculture minister has sought to reassure households that food shopping bills would not jump dramatically after a rise in minimum food prices aimed at increasing farmers' incomes came into effect.
The measure introduced on Friday had been postponed by the government in December as France reeled from nationwide unrest and sometimes violent gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests over high living costs and squeezed household budgets.
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