SOFIA: Brussels on Wednesday (Apr 19) offered an extra €100 million of support for EU farmers to ease a standoff over Ukrainian grain after Bulgaria became the latest country to approve a temporary ban on food products from the war-hit nation. In recent days, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia banned the impor
SOFIA: Brussels on Wednesday offered an extra €100 million of support for EU farmers to ease a standoff over Ukrainian grain after Bulgaria became the latest country to approve a temporary ban on food products from the war-hit nation.
That money would come on top of a €56-million package that was provided for farmers in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria last month. The ban will enter into force from April 24 and last until the end of June, but will not apply to the transit of goods through Bulgarian territory.Its neighbour Romania also announced on Wednesday that it would take additional measures regarding Ukrainian grain imports, including sealing and monitoring the vehicles that transit through the country.
In May 2022, the European Union allowed Kyiv to export its grain stocks through the bloc after the closure of the Black Sea shipping lanes following Russia's invasion sparked a global food crisis. Budapest complained that a significant proportion of imported Ukrainian products do not leave the EU, and instead have been sold at dumping prices in the member states.
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