Duda considers agriculture a “problematic issue” in Ukraine’s accession to the EU

Polish President Andrzej Duda said that agriculture remains a “problematic issue” in the context of Ukraine’s accession to the EU.

The issue of agriculture is one of the challenges for Ukraine’s accession to the EU, but Warsaw will continue to support Kyiv’s integration into European structures, Andrzej Duda told Trwam TV channel.

Duda noted that the powerful agricultural sector of Ukraine needs separate consideration and a special European policy in order to avoid threats to the current structure of agriculture in the EU.

“Ukrainian agriculture is so powerful that it can even endanger the agriculture of the entire European Union,” he emphasized.

Answering the question whether this might weaken Poland’s enthusiasm for Ukraine’s membership, the president noted that Kyiv’s integration into the EU and NATO is in Poland’s national interests. Duda emphasized that Poland should be at the forefront of supporting Ukraine’s accession to Western structures, so that the “iron curtain” between imperial Russia and the free world passes as far as possible from Polish borders.

USM previously reported that a local farmer and his daughter, who during the protests called on Putin to continue military aggression against Ukraine, will be tried in Poland.