Italian Q2 GDP above eurozone average

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 17 - Italian GDP growth in the second quarter of 2022 was above the eurozone average of 0.6% at 1%, Eurostat said in preliminary data Wednesday.
    German GDP was unchanged.
    France's was 0.5% up and Spain's 1.1% up.
    Italy's recovery has been hit by a cost of living crisis with spiralling energy bills amid the war in Ukraine and supply chain snafus.
    The government has passed two aid packages for hard-hit families struggling to make it to the end of the month. (ANSA).