{"id":193525,"date":"2022-09-30T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=193525"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T03:08:05","slug":"belgiums-inflation-highest-since-1975-due-to-high-price-of-energy-statbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=193525","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s inflation highest since 1975, due to high price of energy: Statbel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BRUSSELS, Sept 30 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The inflation rate in Belgium went up to 11.27 percent in September, its highest level since August 1975, the country&#8217;s statistical office Statbel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate was 9.94 percent in August and 9.62 percent in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high price of energy was the main driver of inflation. Electricity now costs 81.3 percent and natural gas 134.9 percent more than a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept 16, the government of Belgium adopted a new package of relief measures to support households and businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the year, households will receive a reduction of nearly 400 euros (391 U.S. dollars) on their gas and electricity bills.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Sept 30 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The inflation rate in Belgium went up to 11.27 percent in September, its highest level since August 1975, the country&#8217;s statistical office Statbel said. The rate was 9.94 percent in August and 9.62 percent in July. The high price of energy was the main driver of inflation. Electricity now costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193527,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193525\/revisions\/193527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}