BRITAIN AND IRELAND CHALLENGE SCANDINAVIA OVER FOOD COSTS SAYS EUROSTAT
July 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE FOOD prices in the UK and Ireland have reached Scandinavian levels according to the European Union's (EU) statistics agency, Eurostat. In 2006, Ireland-sold milk, cheese and eggs, for instance, cost 126% of the EU average, and they were 115% in the UK, compared with 104% in Sweden and 110% in Finland. The cheapest countries to buy dairy products in the EU were in Poland at 67% and Latvia at 75%. Buying meat products in Britain and Ireland was also expensive (at 126% and 129% above the EU average) and very costly in non-EU states Switzerland, ...
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