Czechia – On November 5, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (centre-right) posted a video on his Facebook page in which he is busy comparing prices between Czechia and Germany.
In an attempt to restaure his image after months of degradation due to his economical and societal policies, Petr Fiala tried to get back to campaigning for lower food prices in his country.
“In the Czech Republic, everything is either more expensive or sold in smaller packages”
Fiala’s Bavarian shopping spree cost exactly 492 crowns (20 euros), while the same products (either identical or comparable) – in some cases packaged with smaller quantities – cost him 552 crowns (22.40 euros) in Czechia, which is 12.2% more. The Czech prime minister concluded that “In the Czech Republic, everything is either more expensive or sold in smaller packages”.
As Germany’s Bild pointed out, many Czech consumers in the border regions have changed their habits: “More and more Czechs do their shopping in Germany”, notes the newspaper.
As Czechia’s Novinky points out, according to official Eurostat data for the end of 2022 the level of food prices for the whole of Czechia was valued at an index of 97, while it was 107 in Germany (an index of 100 corresponds to the average European Union food prices).
Cheaper prices in Germany, Poland, and Slovakia
In practice, however, as the Czech Prime Minister demonstrated in his video, European statistics do not always match people’s experiences. Novinky also looked into the situation for other products and found, for example, that an Idanäs bed cost 12,210 crowns (495 euros) at Ikea in Slovakia, but 15,990 crowns (649 euros) in Czechia, and that mouthwash costs half as much in a Polish pharmacy as in a Czech one.
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