Poland will call for the EU to sanction Russian agricultural products getting into the bloc, Warsaw’s envoy to Brussels mentioned in remarks revealed on Saturday.
“We believe that sanctions on Russian agricultural products should be imposed immediately,” mentioned Andrzej Sadoś, the Polish everlasting consultant to the EU, in accordance to the Polish Press Agency.
The EU has imposed 10 rounds of sanctions in opposition to Moscow for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, however hasn’t touched farm products due to the menace to meals safety, significantly in Africa.
EU diplomats are slated to talk about an 11th round of sanctions in opposition to Russia subsequent week.
The call by Sadoś for unprecedented sanctions on meals products comes simply after Warsaw broke with Kyiv to call for limits on Ukrainian grain coming into Poland and different EU international locations.
With Polish farmers affected by sagging costs, the European Commission in late April struck an agreement in precept with Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to enable the transit of Ukrainian grain throughout their international locations with none of it getting into their home markets. Within every week, nevertheless, that settlement was already falling apart.
Sadoś made a direct reference to the Ukrainian grain dustup in his call for sanctions on Russian farm products. While Western governments have sometimes avoided blocking the sale of foodstuffs, particularly amid a worldwide starvation disaster, Europe isn’t dealing with that difficulty, Sadoś mentioned.
“Quite the opposite,” he continued. “We have a surplus problem” associated to the Ukrainian imports.
