Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will defy the European Union and extend a temporary ban placed on Ukrainian grain imports, in a move likely to anger the bloc’s leadership.
On Friday, the EU announced plans to suspend a temporary ban placed on the export of Ukrainian grain to a select number of countries in Eastern Europe. The temporary measure adopted in May saw a ban placed on the imports of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seed to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia to counter the risk of farmers in these countries being undercut by a bottleneck of cheap Ukrainian grain.
Later Friday, Polish government spokesperson, Piotr Muller announced the government’s plan to immediately introduce a regulation extending the ban on Ukrainian grain imports, stressing that the measure is being taken in the “interest of Polish farmers and consumers.” Hungary has also opted to retain the ban with the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban announcing on Saturday on “X,” formerly known as Twitter, his plans to “take matters into our own hands.
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