Government support to tackle energy costs

Support for hard-hit European households to tackle rising energy costs varies considerably, with governments focused mainly on preventing energy companies passing on price increases to customers


COST OF ENERGY SUPPORT MEASURES (% of GDP)
Greece		3.7
Lithuania	3.6
Italy		2.8
Czechia		2.5
Spain		2.3
Austria		2.3
France		1.8
Germany 	1.7
Romania		1.6
UK 		1.4 
Malta 		1.4 
Latvia 		1.4 
Poland 		1.3 
Bulgaria 	1.2 
Croatia 	1.1 
Slovakia 	1.0 
Belgium 	0.8 
Estonia 	0.8 
NED 		0.7 
CYP 		0.7 
SLO 		0.5 
FIN 		0.5 
NOR 		0.5 
SWE 		0.4
IRE 		0.2
DEN 		0.1 
 
 
EU 
Non-EU

Norway €2.3bn
Neth. €6.2bn
UK €22.5bn 
France €44.7bn
Spain €27.3bn
Italy €49.5bn
Germany €60.2bn 
Poland €7.6bn
Austria €9.1bn
Greece €6.8bn


Source: Breugel
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