2023-07-30 02:27:00
The price monitor, Stefan Meierhans, will organize a meeting on purchasing power with consumer organizations in Bern in September. ‘We have to rethink competition law,’ he says.
Despite their constitutional mandate, consumer protection organizations receive almost no money, Meierhans said in an interview broadcast Sunday by the SonntagsBlick. Consumer protection must be strengthened, he adds. ‘The economy does not have a natural tendency to be competitive. We have to force her to do it’.
During the September meeting, the discussions will focus on the evolution of prices and the role of private companies but also those linked to the State, such as La Poste and the Federal Railways (CFF), specifies Mr Prix. ‘If anyone has an interest in not inflating inflation further, it must be the state. This is why, during the meeting on purchasing power, we will specifically address the question of the responsibility of the State in times of inflation’.
The Price Monitor believes that private companies are also affected. He thus intends to extend his preliminary investigation on the prices of organic food ‘to include the retail trade’.
Mr. Meierhans says he has already intervened with the banks. “For example, they charge very high fees for closing accounts, but also in securities trading. I expect corrections.
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