In a letter to the European Commission last month, the prime ministers of five Eastern European countries said the scale of the increase in products such as cereals, oilseeds, eggs, poultry and sugar has been “unprecedented”, and called for tariffs to be imposed on Ukrainian agricultural imports. Needed should be considered as a possibility.
The effects of oversupply have created a political problem for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) in an election year, with the economy stuck in limbo.
“Today, the government has decided on a regulation that bans the import of grain, but also dozens of other types of food (from Ukraine), into Poland,” PiS leader Jarosław Kaczynski said during a party conference.