This Wednesday, Romania asked the government of Ukraine to take a decision to limit the export of grains to its country, while at the same time establishing stricter control over the transportation of these agricultural products transiting through its territory.
Romanian Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea held this Wednesday a meeting via videoconference with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solsky, to whom he raised the need to find a formula as soon as possible to reduce the volume of agricultural products entering Romania from Ukraine, according to the Romanian news agency Agerpres.
To prevent Ukrainian agricultural products from entering the domestic market in transit to other countries, the Romanian authorities decided to seal these supplies and control transit within the country, Dea added.
As in other countries in the region, there is concern in Romania about the impact that competition from large volumes of Ukrainian products that come without tariffs or taxes could have on the national agricultural sector due to prices that are much lower than those that can be offer domestic producers. . . .
The situation resulted in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria temporarily banning grain imports from Ukraine, which was qualified by the European Commission (EC) as “unacceptable” as “unilateral”.
Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca assured this Wednesday that in this matter, his country will always act in consultation with Brussels and in accordance with the community’s guidelines.
The European Union (EU) approved on July 22 an agreement to create so-called “humanitarian corridors” to allow the import of grain from Ukraine and avoid a food crisis.
But some Ukrainian produce ended up in community markets, which led to a sharp drop in prices in countries in the region, where grains are increasingly accumulated in elevators, which caused protests from farmers.
EU President Ursula von der Leyen stressed this Wednesday in a letter addressed to five affected countries the need to address these issues with a “European approach”.
In addition, he announced that the EC will support Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, allocating a total of 100 million euros to compensate for the damage caused.
This support is in addition to the 56.3 million previously approved for Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest.
The military offensive launched on February 24, 2022 by Russia on the territory of Ukraine has so far caused the flight of more than 14.6 million people – 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 8.1 million – to European countries – from the country, according to the latest data UN, which classifies this migrant crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
At the moment, at least 18 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed since the start of the war, which entered its 420th day this Wednesday, 8,534 civilians killed and 14,370 wounded, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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