Hungarian prices not only reached, but also exceeded the EU prices

The selling price of L-shaped eggs at the packing point is also the highest in the first weeks of the year compared to Slovakia, Poland and Italy. The selling price of one hundred kilograms of table eggs (M+L) at the packing point was 282.37 euros in the 8th week of this year, while the EU average was only 255.39 euros. Between 2022 and 2023, the product became more expensive in Hungary by 100 percent, while the EU27 average was only 68.6 percent more expensive. Its rise in prices exceeded the EU average at the beginning of the year as well, which was 1.4 percent from the 7th to the 8th week, while at home it increased by 2.4 percent during the same period. The most common gross price of eggs in the 9th week ranged between HUF 71-80 in the wholesale market and HUF 80-90 in the largest consumer markets, which is also significantly higher than the EU average. While at the beginning of last year the selling price of whole chicken (65 percent) was still significantly below the average ...