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Coffee-economics – or what you really pay for when ordering a cappuccino In London, over the last weekend, I spent on average £ 2.50 per cup of coffee in different places. So far, so normal. Later, while waiting in the hotel-lobby for my traveling companion, I overlooked a few newspapers and magazines the place offered for guests. And stumbled upon …

In the previous chapter, I questioned the ratio of costs when drinking a cappuccino – 8 pence for coffee and 37 cents for TVA. Well, that’s the reality in London, but I doubt there is much of a difference to Bucharest. TVA is with 700 billion EUR each year the first source of income in European states. Still, there are …