I don't think the EU had any authority over fuel duty.
Anyway....
It's the price at the pump that's important. I saw a graph a couple of weeks ago that showed the UK was amongst the highest but not the highest. I think the Scandinavian countries were higher. The situation may have changed in the last couple of weeks. I've always been a bit suspicious of comparisons, one would need to take account of average earnings in the different countries and the exchange rate. The latest view seems to be prices are softening a bit.
My local Tesco and Esso appear to now be engauging in a sort-of price war, knocking a couple of pence off the price to outdo the other every few days.
When I was out of a cycle ride on Saturday, even one of the normally expensive filling stations at the start of a bypass round a nearby village (admitedly it's now an Esso and was a BP before) was not that far off the local price (3p a litre more at the time).
I think that the fuel companies and retailers have finally cottoned onto bad publicity = less business. It was very noticeable that thos filling stations putting down their prices first were the independents, not the major players and especially the supermarkets, who've seemingly only reacted as people choose carefully where to buy their fuel.
Frankly the fuel duty stuff is mostly a red herring, given its not what the rates have come down by but what they actually are and other add-on taxes like VAT. They are too high in most Western nations.
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