The government yesterday insisted that European consumers paid an average of €1.45 per litre for petrol and €1.32 for diesel.
Referring to a statement issued on Friday by the Nationalist Party in which the PN insisted the price of petrol and diesel in Malta was substantially higher than the EU average and the absolute majority of EU states, the government said the PN was gathering information from unofficial sites that were not in line with the scientific figures provided by the European Commission.
It said while the prices of petrol and diesel in Malta were €1.09 and €1.02 respectively at the beginning of March 2008, they had gone up to €1.48 and €1.38 by the beginning of March 2013 as a result of the poor decisions taken by then finance minister Tonio Fenech.