Still, the average figure masks huge national divergences \u2014\u00a0with egg prices up by 46 percent in Czechia in March from a year earlier, by 30 percent in Slovakia and by 26 percent in Hungary.<\/p>\n
Prices fell by 3.6 percent in the Netherlands, by 3.2 percent in Luxembourg and by 2 percent in Greece.<\/p>\n
The U.S., meanwhile, continues to grapple with a major outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, which has forced the culling of millions of laying hens. In March, U.S. egg prices climbed to an all-time high<\/a> of $6.23 a dozen.<\/p>\n Trump fumed on Thursday morning that, actually, egg prices were down (though data shows prices were at $4.90 a dozen<\/a> in January before President Joe Biden left office), in a social media post complaining<\/a> that the European Central Bank had found room to cut interest rates.<\/p>\n Trump lamented that the U.S. Federal Reserve had not managed to similarly cut U.S. interest rates,\u00a0even though he railed that \u201cOil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, the average figure masks huge national divergences \u2014\u00a0with egg prices up by 46 percent in Czechia in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11663,18043,32,7479,2000,299,5187,1214,1450,2190,478,1215,2558,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-30189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture-and-food","9":"tag-animal-disease","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eggs","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-exports","16":"tag-greece","17":"tag-hungary","18":"tag-interest-rates","19":"tag-luxembourg","20":"tag-slovakia","21":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114358950652584021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30189","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=30189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}