European Union countries have greenlighted a sharp increase in tariffs on Russian and Belarusian grain in a move aimed at halting imports of these products to the 27-member bloc on Thursday (30 May).
The European Commission has proposed a steep increase in tariffs on Russian grain that comes into the bloc’s common market.
The EU has a “moral obligation” to curb Russian grain imports, including of possibly stolen Ukrainian grain, five EU countries have said.
The European Commission announced today (15 March) that it will unveil measures to address the surge in imports of Russian agricultural products, particularly cereals, into the EU.
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As Poland considers following in Latvia’s footsteps by banning agricultural imports from Russia that it says are destabilising the Polish market, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski stepped in to deny that Russian grain imports to the East…
The European Union and its member states must take “concrete and immediate” action to put sanctions on Russian food imports, Latvia’s Agriculture Minister Armands Krauze stressed at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council on Tuesday (23 January).
