Meat prices in Europe

Photo: pixabay.com How much does a pleasant summer barbecue across Europe cost? This was followed by the Statistical Office of the European Union, Eurostat. It compared meat prices in each Member State. Taking the EU average as 100 percent, the differences are examined for the 27 member states, as well as for the United Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland and Norway, the Hungarian Livestock Breeders' Association writes on its website. The following meats were examined: beef, veal, pork, lamb, sheep, goat, poultry, as well as offal, delicatessen and other meat products. Among the EU Member States, meat is the most expensive in Austria, where it is almost one and a half times the EU average, but in Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands, consumers face prices well above average at meat counters. The “army drivers” in this regard are Romania and Bulgaria, where meat and meat products cost 37 percent less than average. In Hungary, the price of meat was 24.7 percent lower than the EU ...