Fears for French baguettes as power prices burn bakers
Already struggling with sharp hikes in the price of butter, flour and sugar over the last year and a half, the prized industry is now alarmed by astronomical electricity bills looming in 2023. "It was absolutely inconceivable to me that a power bill could make me close my shop and stop my life here," Julien Bernard-Regnard, a distraught baker in the village of Bourgaltroff in eastern France, told AFP by phone. He is still coming to terms with closing his doors for the final time in early December having decided that continuing his business... Читать дальше...