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At the same time, consumer prices in Italy grew cumulatively by 223%, compared with 103% in the euro area 12.8 Second, support for the Single Market would be undermined in the long run if firms that did invest in raising productivity could be deprived of some of the benefits by “beggar-thy-neighbour” behaviour through competitive devaluations in other countries. Open markets would not have lasted.