The information portal “GazetaDemos.com” published an article yesterday titled “'Nowhere in Europe is the price of electricity as high as in Kosovo'”.
This article contains a short interview conducted by this portal with economic expert, Safet Gërxhali, who spoke about the price of electricity in Kosovo.
However, it seems that the author of the article did not correctly interpret the interlocutor since, from what is understood from the content of the article, Gërxhaliu did not state that "nowhere in Europe is the price of electricity as high as in Kosovo", as claimed in the title.
Link to the article published on the portal "GazetaDemos.com":
Gërxhaliu stated that, while in Europe there is a decrease in the price of electricity, in Kosovo there is an increase of 15 percent, but he did not say that Kosovo has the highest price of this product.
"It is strange that throughout Europe there is a decrease in electricity prices while in Kosovo there is an increase of 15 percent, and this also brings the consequences of the non-decrease in the prices of our products in production," says Gërxhaliu to the Demos Newspaper.
After verification of the facts carried out by hibrid.info, through the data presented in "Eurostat", it has been confirmed that Kosovo in the first half of 2022 paid 0.0611 euros per KWh (kilowatts per hour). (see here)
While in the second half of the year, the electricity price statistics table does not provide the exact value paid per KWh, but Kosovo is in the ranking of countries that pay per KWh below the price of 0.10 euros per KWh. (see here)
The highest electricity price in Europe in the second half of 2022 was paid by Denmark, based on data provided by "Eurostat", this country paid €0,5871 per KWh. (see photo below)
Analyze:
Based on fact-checking, hibrid.info has confirmed that the title of the article published in "GazetaDemos.com" does not match the quote from the economic expert, Safet Gërxhaliu. He never mentioned that Kosovo pays the highest price for electricity in Europe.
In the data provided by "Eurostat", it can be seen that Kosovo pays the lowest price for electricity in Kosovo (0.0611 euros per KWh), while Denmark is the country that pays the highest price in Europe (0.4559 euros per KWh).
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info rates this article as "Error".
Reasoning:
The "Error" rating is given to media reports in which the media editorial staff made a mistake by publishing incorrect information or broadcasting unverified news from another source, without the clear intention of misinforming the public.