The authorities of Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Slovakia are asking the European Commission to extend the ban on agricultural products imports from Ukraine. This was expressed by the head of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, Istvan Nagy, whose words were quoted by the Hungarian online trade newspaper. vilaggazdasag.
“The European Commission needs to extend the ban on Ukrainian grain imports after September 15,” said the minister.
He added that Hungary shares the same position with Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovakia on this issue.
According to Nagy, this is the only way to protect the interests of European farmers.
According to him, Hungarian farmers received compensation of 15.93 million euros from the European Union, “a symbolic amount compared to the amount of damage”.
Before that Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture spoke for the extension of the grain agreement due to the risk of loss and the paralysis of the grain market in Central Europe.
Former Polish professor Arkadiusz Artyshak judicial shocking volumes of Ukrainian grain imports to countries.