Poland receives a letter from the European Commission demanding to cancel the embargo on grain from Ukraine

The European Commission has sent a letter demanding the lifting of the indefinite embargo on duty-free imports of certain agricultural products to Poland.

This was reported to the Polish media by Czeslaw Siekerski, Minister of Agriculture of Poland.

“There is a growing threat of a return of the grain crisis of a year ago. The European Commission is demanding that Poland lift the embargo on agricultural products from Ukraine, and farmers are worried whether Ukrainian grain will really be in transit only from the new year,” he said in a statement.

With the new year, farmers’ worries about the supply of agricultural products from Ukraine do not disappear. President of the Lublin Chamber of Agriculture Gustaw Jędrzejek received signals that imports of four types of grain from Ukraine will resume on January 1.

“We don’t know what will happen at the border, because there is contradictory information about the passage of grain to Poland as duty-free imports,” Gustaw Jedrzejek explained in a statement to Telewizja Trwam.

According to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Czeslaw Siekerski of the Polish People’s Party, the resolution on the unilateral closure of the border is in force. Meanwhile, Brussels is seeking to resume imports.

“This embargo is indefinite. We expect it to be, and we already have evidence of it, because we have received a letter from the European Commission demanding the embargo be lifted,” explained Czeslaw Siekerski.

According to Michał Kolodziejczak, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Ukraine’s transition period to the EU should be very long – 20-25 years, or even “infinitely long.”

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