Pricing

The Total Producer Price Index in Industry in March 2019 went up with 0.7% compared to the previous month, reported the National Statistical Institute (NSI).

With fuel prices having already risen more than 10 percent since the start of the year, Greek consumers - who along with the Dutch and the Danes pay the most for gasoline in Europe - will have to prepare for more hikes.

Gasoline prices in Bulgaria went up sharply. Only a few months after the massive protests in the autumn that spanned the country for fuel appreciation and after winter's soaring prices, the A 95 gasoline carries record-breaking figures for this year. Since mid-March, the increase has averaged 12 cents per liter. From 2.08 leva on March 14, the mass gasoline now averages 2.20 leva.

An average of 15 percent will increase household electricity prices if the energy regulator approves CEZ's proposal to increase the cost of electricity. The opinion expressed to Darik the energy expert and member of the strategic council to President Elenko Bozhkov.
 

The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission will not allow a drastic increase in electricity, assured the head of the regulator Ivan Ivanov. He predicts that the 1 July increase will be within inflation - about 3.6%.

Yesterday, energy companies have requested an increase ranging from 2% for the day to over 50% of the night.

A drastic appreciation of the night electricity price for household consumers as of July 1 with more than 51% demanded from CEZ, and for the daily electricity price - about 11%, it is clear from the price proposal of the company, deposited in the State Agency of Energy Regulation (KEVR).

EVN offers an increase in the daily tariff by 4.6% and by over 8% for the night.

The euro exchange rate set for the pricing of medicines has been increased by 26.4 percent for 2019, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said.

Turkey’s textile industry foresees weaker demand in the domestic market as rising costs will push prices higher, but hopes to boost exports this year.

State revenues exceeded their target last year by at least 420 million euros, according to provisional data for December shared by Independent Authority for Public Revenue Director Giorgos Pitsilis with the agency's employees in a letter.

Pitsilis predicted that the definitive data, due in the coming days, will show an even greater overrun.

The prices of central heating and electricity remain unchanged until the end of the heating season, the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission said after its open session, reports Focus News Agency.