But the European Commission has expressed its dissatisfaction with the arbitrariness of Eastern European countries, to which it had previously promised to allocate more than 110 million euros in compensation for the losses suffered by farmers. As reported in Brussels, the EC is studying decisions to suspend imports of agricultural products from Ukraine and has requested additional information from countries that have taken such a decision. “Trade policy falls within the exclusive competence of the EU, so unilateral actions are unacceptable,” the European Commission stressed.
The Hungarian authorities, for their part, accuse Brussels of double standards. The fact is that the problem concerns at least six countries, and they promised to allocate financial assistance only to Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. Hungarian Agriculture Minister István Nagy said this was discrimination that puts Hungarian farmers at a disadvantage.
As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, pointed out, Poland, which has become the locomotive of a group of countries dissatisfied with the supply of Ukrainian grain, is always ready to discuss with Kiev. “She still needs this as a subject, as an anti-Russian toolbox,” the diplomat noted. “And when the border is erased, the remnants of Ukraine are absorbed by Warsaw, so no one will talk to the locals at all,” Zakharova added. According to her, the ban on the import and transit of cereals introduced by Warsaw is indicative of the imaginary concern of Westerners for the hungry and needy.
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