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July 2010

Romania sells cheapest booze in the EU

Binge-drinkers will be booking flights to Romania at the news that the country is the EU’s cheapest place for drinking alcohol, according to a Eurostat study

The price of alcohol in Romania stands at 70 per cent of the European average. In Romania, overall prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages are two thirds of the EU mean. The only country in the EU where it is cheaper to eat than in Romania is Poland. Romanian prices of cereal, meat and fish stand at around two thirds of the European average, while dairy products are the most expensive by comparison with other EU states, at 93 per cent of the mean.
It is cheaper to smoke in Bulgaria than in Romania – but only just. Tobacco in Romania costs 47 per cent of the EU average as compared to Bulgaria’s 46 per cent. However prices of fags and booze will rise if Romania increases VAT from 19 to 24 per cent.

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