The increase in fuel prices announced two days was the lowest in the European, the Office of the Prime Minister said today.

Enemed on Tuesday announced a 4c increase in the price of petrol and diesel.

The OPM said that the Maltese were least affected by a 32% increase in the price of oil. The average fuel prices increase in the EU was 8c for petrol and 10c for diesel.

The highest increase in the price of petrol was 12c in Sweden while diesel went up by 19c in Finland. 

The OPM said that according to European Commission figures, petrol and diesel prices in Malta are 6c lower than the EU average.

Under the former government, it said, prices rose at twice the European average.

PN REACTION

In a reaction, shadow minister Marthese Portelli said the statement by the Office by the Prime Minister was a desperate face-saving exercise amid the people's anger.

Dr Portelli said Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and minister Konrad Mizzi had, for two years, been promising not to raise fuel prices as they said they were following a policy of stability. But that had only been an excuse not to reduce prices to reflect the sharp drop in oil prices.

Just two weeks ago they sent a calendar to people's homes boasting that prices would be kept stable, but now they had broken their promise and prices had gone up in an exaggerated manner.  

 

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