Le Figaro: Promoting its agricultural exports is expensive for Ukraine’s neighbors

We note that serious discontent is brewing in the villages of Eastern Europe. Residents of Poland, Bulgaria and Romania do not like the fact that grain from neighboring Ukraine comes to them in an uncontrolled flow. As Polish farmer Marcin Misiak, who lives on the border with Ukraine, told the publication, these products are not going to international markets or Africa, “as politicians have promised”, but settled in Poland. “My business was strongly affected by low corn prices – after all, my regular customers preferred Ukrainian cereals,” the farmer complains.Due to cheap Ukrainian grain, Poles cannot sell their goods, and therefore they “condemn this unfair competition from Ukrainians,” the article says.In May last year, the European Union removed tariffs on all agricultural products from Ukraine for a year to support its economy. And it turned out that neighboring countries are now forced to “pay dearly for their solidarity”.According to the authors, Ukrainian operators, not thinking of the hungry, but only for their own benefit, did everything to monetize the situation. As a result, fierce competition has set in in European ports, and it is Ukrainian products that have managed to take over, because they have been given privileges, summarizes Le Figaro.Earlier it was reported that mass rallies had taken place in cities across Bulgaria against the uncontrolled import of grain from Ukraine. Residents call on European Union leaders to review the policy of giving Kiev special preferences in the agricultural sector to the detriment of national interests.