The price of a cup of tea.

international | consumer issues | news report Friday October 22, 2004 19:06 by iosaf

a short review of average pricing of both necessary and most popular luxury items in the EU.

Eurostat workers annualy disguise themselves as shoppers and infiltrate supermarkets throughout the Union and beyond taking note of the average price of essential items such as Dairy Products, Bread and Cereals, Eggs, Oils and fat, Fruits, Vegetables, Sugar jams and Honey, and luxury items such as Tea, Coffee and cocoa, Mineral Water and soft drinks, Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco.

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At the moment Eurostat info is not that freely available on the internet and the Irish government is doing it's very best to hide the extent of "RIP OFF IRELAND" from you.

So, having spent this week considering amongst other things, the appaling figures for "food poverty" in the EU, (in Ireland alone there are 200,000 minimum without proper nutrition) I thought to list you the price of a cup of tea-




(100 is the Eurostat 25 state average)

Belgium ........................................109
Czech Republic............................77
Denmark........................................171
Germany........................................104
Estonia...........................................79
Greece............................................103
Spain...............................................75
France.............................................95
Ireland.............................................143
Italy...................................................102
Cyprus.............................................131
Lithuania.........................................79
Latvia................................................69
Luxembourg....................................102
Hungary............................................80
Malta..................................................105
Netherlands.....................................97
Austria...............................................95
Poland..............................................65
Portugal............................................96
Slovenia............................................87
Slovakia............................................76
Finland..............................................132
Sweden..............................................129
United Kingdom...............................115
Iceland...............................................160
Norway...............................................163
Switzerland.......................................115
Bulgaria.............................................68
Rumania............................................77
Turkey.................................................80

As you will see Ireland comes in at 143 points and only Denmark offers a more expensive cup of tea at 171. Both Norway and Iceland (which are the most expensive states in Europe) out do Ireland. But they're not EU.

http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/portal/page?_pageid=1090,1137410&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Maybe some of you would like to know the average scores for other items I'll leave them in the comments.