Is this at least partially Brexit related? For comparison, the US has seen food go up by around 10% over the same time period, which is pretty high but also far from 18%.
0. https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/food-inflation#:~:text=....
1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/germany-inflation...
So, German groccery prices did a lot of catching up since at least a hear. Slow enough so that you don't realize unless you are living on tight budget. That being said, since salaries in Germany tend to be higher than in France, the average German consumer is still a bit better off (ignoring housing or rent, and using a broad brush here).
The war im Ukraine did caise all kinds of issues, as did Covid. All ghinhs considered so, the developed world did reasonably well so far so. If food prices increaseore so, governments will have to intervene, as lower income families will have a hard time between increased energy and food prices.
neither Covid19 nor the war caused the effects, it were the measures that the stupid monkey horde took.
Energy costs are the primary driving factors for the cost of nearly all aspects of modern life.
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).
Maybe best to sum things up as a run of bad luck compounded with gross incompetence?
War has nothing to do with that, at least not war in a classical sense. Economic or total war that some countries are involved in can be considered as a major reason.
And Ukraine's hesitance/inability to strike war-relevant civilian targets in Russia (say, bridges and factories) more than very-sporadically makes the term a bit iffy even for them. Hell, even Russia's been more restrained than what the term usually suggests, as far as the brutality of attacks, if only barely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war
It basically means "complete mobilization of a state & society toward a war effort, coupled with a willingness to engage any target regarded as having any war relevance whatsoever, no matter where or what the target is". Hallmarks are mass conscription, rationing, large-scale conversion of civilian production capacity to making war materiel, and leveling cities on purpose (not just as a side-effect of fighting over them).
Once war started, the sanctions made sure they stayed high.