Cyprus’ dairy products the most expensive in EU

Milk, cheese, eggs and bread in Cyprus are the most expensive in the EU by up to 140 per cent of the average while meat and tobacco come in cheaper according to the latest Eurostat research data.
The results stem from research carried out on the prices of food, beverages and tobacco in 38 countries on 440 comparable products across Europe.
In Cyprus food and non-alcoholic beverages amounted to 107 per cent of the EU average, bread and cereals at 116 percent, meat at 88 per cent, milk, cheese and eggs at a whopping 140 per cent, alcohol at 103 per cent and tobacco at 82 per cent of the EU average.
A comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages throughout the EU last year varied by up to twice the price. Denmark had the most expensive foodstuffs and non-alcoholic beverages in the union at 145 per cent of the EU average followed by Sweden at 124 per cent, Austria at 120 per cent, then Ireland and Finland both at 119 per cent with Luxembourg coming in at 116 per cent.
At the other end of the scale, the cheapest country was Poland with 63 per cent of the average overall, Romania with 64 per cent, Bulgaria with 70 per cent, Lithuania with 78 per cent and the Czech Republic and Hungary both at 79 per cent.
For bread and cereals, price levels ranged from 53 per cent of the EU average in Romania to 162 per cent in Denmark. Polish meat was the cheapest at 54 per cent while the Danes paid 137 per cent of the average.
The cheapest place to forget your worries was Bulgaria where the prices of alcoholic drinks were 64 per cent of the EU average followed by Romania with 72 per cent.
The most expensive was Ireland at 175 per cent of the average across the union, followed closely by Finland at 172 per cent while the UK came in at 163 per cent.
The cost of having a smoke varies by up to four times across member states ranging from Bulgaria at half the price of the average to the UK at 218 per cent.

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