Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria staged protests against the EU allowing Ukrainian grain to flood their markets and undercut local prices.
BUCHAREST, Romania – Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria staged protests Friday to express their anger over the European Union’s response to a glut of agricultural products from Ukraine that they say are flooding local markets and undercutting prices.
Romanian farmers protest in the front of the European Commision headquarters in Bucharest on April 7, 2023 Farmers drive their tractors during an action to block trucks crossing the Danube bridge, marking the border between Bulgaria and Romania in a protest against the duty-free import of grain coming from Ukraine into the EU, in Rousse on March 29, 2023.
“We are less than three months away from the new harvest and the danger is real, that the goods we will have ready this season will not be able to be sold at prices above production costs,” she said. “We will witness a chain of bankruptcies of Romanian farmers.”
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