ROME, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Prices in Italy rose to record levels in 2022, the government's statistics entity ISTAT said on Tuesday.
For the year as a whole, prices were an average of 8.1 percent higher than a year earlier, the highest level in Italy since the introduction of the euro currency in 1999. In 2021, the year-on-year increase was just 1.9 percent.
