Press release No. 207 of 17 June 2016
WIESBADEN – .The price level of private consumption expenditure in Germany in 2015 was by 0.2% lower than the average of the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that as in the previous years the price level was higher in most of Germany's immediate neighbouring countries. Only in Poland and in the Czech Republic was the cost of living lower.