Marek Sawicki, Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, has bemoaned Poland’s high sugar prices and spoken critically of the EU status quo, stating that the “common agricultural policy is not ideal.”

Speaking to Polish Radio, Wednesday morning, Sawicki said that the CAP “is conservative and bureaucratic,” adding that the system “needs far-reaching reforms.”

Sawicki pledged to lower the prices of sugar, noting that sugar prices had reached their peak and that changes would be enacted by June.

The minister highlighted that the matter was being taken up with the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

His remarks follow on from pronouncements made last month, in which he stated that “food in Poland is too expensive in relation to wages.”

Summing up, Sawicki was forthright in his criticism of EU Agricultural policy. “Production of foodstuffs has not risen in Europe over the last thirty years,” he said.

“But in certain regions of the world it has risen by as much as 400 percent. So if Europe, with stupid regulations, eliminates itself from competition, then such are the effects,” Sawicki lamented. (nh/jb)