Fuel, food, and housing costs drive Cyprus inflation higher as working-class families bear the brunt of rising prices

Day in, day out, the anxiety for salaried workers remains exactly the same: how to make ends meet until the end of the month. Every time a new crisis emerges and inflation rises, this dread grows even heavier. An increase in inflation means more expensive products, and primarily costlier essential goods—food, fuel, and everything tied to housing, from rent to electricity.

The Statistical Service recently announced that the Consumer Price Index for June rose at a rate of 3.1%. A day earlier...