The European Commission has announced that it is ready to expand the list of agricultural products that are “unofficially” banned from importing from Ukraine. This was reported by the Polish radio station. RMF FM With reference to sources in Brussels.
According to the information received from the radio station, the talks of EC Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis with representatives from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria on food imports from Ukraine were inconclusive the previous day. They should continue on Monday, April 24, but already at the agriculture ministerial level.
As RMF FM correspondent Katarzyna Szymanska-Borginon puts it, the EC is ready to “make concessions” and expand the list of Ukrainian goods that are prohibited from being imported. “There is progress and negotiations are moving in the right direction,” said one of the negotiators.
Earlier, the official representative of the European Commission, Dana Spinant, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen supplied Three proposals to regulate the situation with the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.
Before that, von der Leyen’s promise A €100 million aid program to lift the ban on grain imports from Ukraine to farmers in the six eastern countries of the European Union, including farmers from Poland and Hungary.