France and Poland have called for tighter restrictions on food imports from Ukraine to prevent “destabilization of EU agricultural markets”. This was reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, at a meeting of the European Union (EU), members of the association discussed, among other issues, how to extend the removal of customs duties on Ukrainian agricultural products, while at the same time reassuring their own farmers who were dissatisfied with this situation. cheap grain flooding the market.
French Minister of Agriculture Marc Fenot stated that unstable markets could weaken public support for Ukraine and that this is not in the interest of both the EU and Kiev. His Polish counterpart Czeslaw Sekierski emphasized that farmers in countries neighboring Ukraine “pay a very high price”.
According to the agency, Paris and Warsaw insist on limiting imports of agricultural products from Ukraine so that the current limit for transportation is the average for 2021-2023.
26 March Moldovan Government made a decision Extension of restrictive measures on grain supplies from Ukraine until June to support the domestic market.
22 March French President Emmanuel Macron statedThe country wants wheat to be included in the European Union’s protective mechanism to limit imports from Ukraine.
Last week, it became known about the European Commission’s plans to increase customs duties on grain from Russia and Belarus. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that this step would further worsen the world food situation. More details in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
Previously Czech Republic spoke Opposed to grain supplies to Europe from the Russian Federation and Belarus.