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PhotographySombe numbers on prices of food, drinks and legal drugs in the European Union.
- Milk, eggs and cheese are pretty cheap in Germany compared to the other 26 countries; meat is 20% more expensive, though (only Denmark and Austria have higher meat prices).
- Food and non-alcoholic drinks in Poland are 36% cheaper than EU average, Denmark is 39% above the average.
- You can get cigarettes in Bulgaria for half of the average EU price, Irish smokers pay more than 5 times as much.
- Alcohol costs 70% more than average in Finland and Ireland, Germany is pretty cheap with 30% below average.
I’m pretty sure that Norway would just completely outprice every country on most categories … but it’s not a member of the EU.
June 28th, 2010
June 28th, 2010 at 20:08
Maybe Norway’s prices are so much higher because it’s not a member of the EU?
June 28th, 2010 at 20:15
I’m not very good with economics. I know that Norwegians are very happy for many reasons about *not* being a member of the EU.
They are doing extremely well, financially, and came out of the financial crises completely unaffected, because they are … independent.
An example: the interest rate in Norway is extremely low. They basically don’t understand the concept of “renting” a flat. Why would you rent something and throw your money out of the window? Norwegians buy flats. And pay their “rent” to the bank.
Intertwining the financial system more with other countries (e.g. by joining the EU), they’d get more dependent, and are afraid that this might smash their very stable system.
No idea about prices though. I only know that they can afford it. Many Swedes (and Sweden isn’t really a country in which people earn bad …) go to Norway to work :)
I talked to a Norwegian friend a couple of days ago, they have a different educational problem than we Germans do: people are not interested so much in graduating, because you can earn insane amounts of money with “blue-collar jobs”.
Funny, ain’t it :)