With taxes, 1,297 versus 1,136 euros.
The difference comes from the tax: 280 euros per 1,000 litres in the heating season, 13 times the EU minimum (21 euros), plus 24% VAT.
It has been 280 since 2016 (330 in 2012, 230 in 2014), and every government since has kept it. It is not the highest in the EU: in Italy it is 403.
This year the support is given at the pump, not through a tax cut: 20 cents per litre from the state until 15 November and a 20-cent discount from the refineries.
Sources: Weekly Oil Bulletin (European Commission), Law 5222/2025, Directive 2003/96/EC, Ministry of National Economy and Finance.
Heating and energy: the Statistical Atlas monthly survey, Monday 7 December.
