Hungary is the only country that continues the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain

Hungary remains the only one of Ukraine’s neighboring countries that still maintains unilateral restrictions against Ukrainian agricultural imports.

“There is still one country that has not canceled individual measures against agricultural exports from Ukraine. This should not necessarily affect Ukrainian transit, and does not apply to the entire EU. But we have offered an aid package on the condition that unilateral measures must be withdrawn. The country that did not do this is Hungary,” said Miriam García Ferrer, spokeswoman for the European Commission on Trade and Agriculture.

As Ukrinform writes, Ferrer noted that the European Commission is still waiting for the elimination of “certain unilateral measures that have been introduced” in order to implement a 100 million euro aid package.

Ferrer noted that this money is allocated from the so-called agricultural reserve of the EU in the amount of 450 million euros per year.

“We have already used part of this amount for the first aid package (€56 million) that we presented in March. We have now proposed another 100 million euros for the second package and also smaller amounts for countries affected by other market situations and crises. So we still have a large part of this amount available, and we are ready to use it if another crisis or situation arises that will require it,” said the spokeswoman of the European Commission.