A large number of citizens of Croatia yesterday was boycotted by trade, which expressed dissatisfaction with high prices. Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina mentions the possibility of the same reaction to high prices.
According to the Croatian Tax Administration, the number of issued trading accounts from midnight by midnight was lower by 43 percent compared to Friday, 17. January, while the total amount of issued accounts is lower by 50 percent. The number of issued accounts for all activities is lower by 29 percent, while the total amount of issued accounts is lower by 31 percent.
The merchants recognize that there are significantly fewer customers who, like the majority of economists, are aware that this act will not change anything immediately, but that it will send a message to the authorities that something is wrong and that it has to change. The authority assures that she realized the message of citizens and announced additional anti-inflation measures.
From the European Center of Excellence of Consumers (ECIP), which is a consumer protection association, through social networks, primarily the Facebook site “Halo, Inspector”, called on boycott trade in Croatia. In this association, they did not hope the adhesion on the boycott were supported by the unionists.
By the way, according to the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat), the increase in the annual inflation rate was largely in December in Croatia in relation to the rest of the European Union. Namely, that growth was 5.5 percent.
Knowing what happened in the neighborhood, and individual citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, primarily on social networks, point out that it is necessary to boycott and trade in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Boycott’s call is referred to a social network Redditin which, among other things, it is stated that “our food is collected than in Germany”, and that there are “price prices in the sky”.
Adis Ketcho from the Alliance of Independent Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina is earlier this week, during the visit to the issue of Polis TVsa He stated that it is not impossible for that boycott to happen in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Generally in the Balkans, some phenomena in certain countries are overflowing from one country to another. It would not surprise me that such a kind of boycott, the action from Croatia, happen to us. What we need to keep in mind is that the employer’s profit 2023 was reported. Amounted to 5.7 billion KM, and in 2024. It reached six billion KM. Employers managed to achieve this profit, of course with a 619 KM salary (as much as the minimum in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), “said Kitcho.
According to the latest data from the Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in November 2024. They were 1.5 percent compared to the same month 2023. The total inflation rate is lower than two percent, which is significantly lower than not so long ago two-digit rates as galloping inflation.
However, in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), last year indicated that the growth of food and energy prices in Bosnia and Herzegovina is persistent in relation to the growth of the prices of other products and services.
Source: Clix
