Euro Leads to "Unusual" Price Hikes in Bars and Restaurants

Ljubljana, 10 January - What consumers have been seeing in bars and restaurants for a while in the run-up to the adoption of the euro has been borne out by hard facts: the National Statistics Office has found "unusual" price increases in bars and restaurants, where prices typically increase by fractions of a percent in the last month of the year, but in December 2006 the increase was 3.2%.