Panic buying for sugar sets in prior to EU membership

Despite some shops placing a ten kilogram limit on each customer, shelves nevertheless still emptied fast. Sugar is the only product whose price is regulated in the EU, which means that in July, which marks the beginning of the economic year, the price of sugar will rise to zł.3.5-4 per kilo. However, even though Poland has not yet joined the EU, the price of sugar has been gradually increasing for the last two weeks. Sugar mill representatives explain that they are gradually putting up prices as they want to avoid shocking customers in July. Is this the beginning of a wider rush? Gazeta Wyborcza notes that after entering the EU, the price of rice, and wheat products, as well as those of pork and dairy products, will all go up between 3-110%. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) K.J.