(ECO) COMPARATIVE PRICES IN TURKEY AND EU -FOOD, ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, CLOTHING, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS CHEAPER IN TURKEY.BRUSSELS, Jul 16, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- EU's statistical office Eurostat revealed that food and non-alcoholic beverages
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Eurostas's price level indices for consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and and services for 2008 including 27 EU-member states, candidate countries, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, it is enough to pay 73 euro in Turkey for goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. amounting to 100 euro in the EU-member states. According to the survey, the most expensive European countries are Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Finland and Iceland while the cheapest countries are Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia. When the EU27 average is set as 100 euro for all the products and services listed below, consumers in Turkey have to pay 113 euro for electronics (including televisions, DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. , receivers, audio systems, MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. , cameras, camcorders, desktop and laptop computers A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. , monitors, printers, scanners, software, music CDs, movie DVDs, empty CDs and DVDs), 104 euro for personal transport equipment (including motor cars, motorcycles and bicycles), 91 euro for alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 90 euro for restaurants and hotels, 87 euro for food and non-alcoholic beverages and 76 euro for clothing. Based in Luxembourg, the Eurostat's task is to provide the EU with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. The list of price level indices for consumer goods and services in Europe in 2008 is as follows: (EU27=100) Alcoholic bev. Transport Restaurants Total Food & tobacco Clothing Electronics equipment & hotels ----- ---- -------------- -------- ----------- --------- ----------- EU27 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Belgium 111 113 101 113 106 100 111 Bulgaria 51 67 63 84 96 85 40 Czech Rep. 72 82 85 113 108 101 65 Denmark 141 147 120 110 121 174 151 Germany 104 106 97 107 101 101 100 Estonia 77 87 74 108 96 88 81 Ireland 127 127 184 91 111 125 137 Greece 94 101 89 113 112 93 96 Spain 96 94 75 99 103 98 94 France 111 104 108 95 106 99 116 Italy 105 115 107 110 116 101 106 Cyprus 90 106 98 101 120 99 103 Latvia 75 85 78 100 99 90 80 Lithuania 67 76 63 88 101 90 72 Luxembourg 116 117 89 112 108 96 106 Hungary 70 83 71 95 102 101 67 Malta 78 89 96 110 126 123 84 Netherlands103 88 99 101 102 118 103 Austria 105 112 92 108 104 106 101 Poland 69 75 74 104 103 101 83 Portugal 87 86 90 98 103 121 75 Romania 62 71 61 86 101 84 62 Slovenia 83 95 74 112 107 94 85 Slovakia 70 81 73 112 108 104 61 Finland 125 125 137 123 117 118 135 Sweden 114 117 136 119 102 93 126 Britain 99 104 150 83 86 91 103 Croatia 75 94 87 118 103 103 83 Macedonia 47 59 43 71 103 100 45 TURKEY 73 87 91 76 113 104 90 Iceland 117 120 139 117 117 93 135 Norway 139 154 217 125 121 107 168 Switzerland130 135 95 124 96 153 125 Albania 53 74 57 90 122 98 44 Bosnia 56 75 45 94 111 95 58 Montenegro 62 77 41 113 93 92 59 Serbia 58 82 54 104 101 98 62 (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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