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Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team<\/a> and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chocolate prices have risen by more in Poland than in any other European Union country over the last year, new data from Eurostat show.<\/p>\n In May \u2013 the most recent month for which figures are available \u2013 chocolate in Poland cost 39.1% more than a year earlier. That was almost double the price rise of 21.1% across the EU as a whole.<\/p>\n Poland was followed by the Baltic trio of Estonia (which saw a 37.9% rise), Lithuania (36.5%) and Latvia (33.2%). At the other end of the scale, Luxembourg (5.2%), Cyprus (9.0%) and Italy (12.2%) saw the smallest price increases<\/p>\n The spike in prices aligns with a global trend. Analysts attribute the surge primarily to a near-300% rise in cocoa costs in 2024, driven by extreme weather, crop diseases, and chronic underinvestment in cocoa-producing regions.<\/p>\n \u201cChocolate is just one of the many foods being made more expensive by climate change-driven extreme weather,\u201d Amber Sawyer, an analyst at the environmental think tank Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), told Al Jazeera. \u201cThese extremes will keep getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana and Ivory Coast \u2013 which together supply about two-thirds of the world\u2019s cocoa \u2013 were hit by flooding, drought, and the cacao\u00a0swollen shoot virus, slashing output and driving prices higher.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Although cocoa prices have retreated slightly in 2025, concerns over future supply and climate-driven weather volatility continue to exert upward pressure on chocolate prices globally.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Poland has also faced persistently high domestic inflation<\/a>. The sharp rise in the price of butter made headlines last December, prompting the government to release strategic butter reserves<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2024, Polish chocolate exports reached $3.2 billion, representing 7.4% of the global market, according to the International Trade Centre.<\/p>\n Main image credit: Kingaklos\/Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>(under CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist. She previously worked for Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-256526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114835363395157280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-11-at-11.57.46_0e1c86d8.jpg\")
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