Ministers of five EU countries will discuss the ban on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine

In Warsaw on July 19, the ministers of five EU countries plan to discuss the extension of the ban on the import of grain from Ukraine.

Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solskyi will also be present at the meeting. As the Minister of Agriculture of Poland, Robert Telus, said, all EU countries neighboring Ukraine are calling on the European Commission to extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain until the end of the year.

He emphasized that Poland and other EU countries, where the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain is in effect, “do not want to harm Ukraine.”

“We want to create tools that will allow Ukrainian products not to stay in Poland or in bordering countries, but to go deep into Europe or outside of Europe,” the Polish minister emphasized.

According to Telus, in the near future he will also speak on this topic with the Minister of Agriculture of Lithuania, which has not joined the countries demanding an embargo on Ukrainian grain.

Telus expressed the opinion that the reluctance of the European Commission to extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain to the five EU countries after September 15 has a political basis. According to him, Brussels does not want to make such a decision before the parliamentary elections in Poland.

We will remind you that in May 2023, the European Commission banned the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. On June 5, the ban was extended until September 15, 2023. Poland suspended the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products through its territory, but resumed it on April 21.