This is evidenced by a data package published at the end of June by the EU statistical office Eurostat. Summarizing measurements taken throughout 2013, it once again confirmed that a large, and sometimes even huge, price spread has persisted for years between individual countries and regions of the European Union.
So, if the average for the EU is taken as 100%, then in the Scandinavian countries of Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, price levels are 123%, 130%, and 140%, respectively. In turn, in the Eastern European countries of Poland and Romania, the consumer basket costs only 57%, and in Bulgaria even 48%.