> Germany has led condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia’s unilateral curbs on grain imports from Ukraine, accusing the countries of cherry-picking EU policies and putting their own interests over Ukraine.
I completely agree with the German minister here.
Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary should abide with EU rules and stop trying to fuck over Ukraine.
Can’t wait for Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary to lead the condemnation of chinese EV ban.
Transit will still be allowed, so Germany can buy Ukrainian grain. I don’t see any obstacles.
Policies or not, each of those countries have the freedom of not buying something they think detrimental to their citizens.
I’m sympathetic to Poland, Romanias, Slovakias and Hungarys viewpoints but you can’t unilaterally pick which EU policies to follow and disregard the rest. I think that’s the biggest issue in all of this.
What if Germany started picking when, how much and to whom the money it sends to the EU goes to? Instead of going through the EU that is. If Germany said that it’ll stop giving money to the EU until Hungary and Poland retracts its undemocratic reform it’d still be wrong.
It shouldn’t be a problem to transit all that grain directly to Germany. I’m sure their citizens will be thrilled to eat bread that has more pesticides than flour.
what a shitshow
So the EU prefers to accept imports that don’t follow the rules and regulations that it imposes on its member states, killing off its agriculture in the process, creating huge social unrest, increasing euroscepticism and diminishing support for Ukraine, instead of banning the imports and finding a way to financially help Ukraine for the loss.
Funny headline, given that the lithuanian commissar, and the french and spanish agricultural ministers have pretty much said exactly the same as the german minister. Guess the usual suspects have to be the evil ones.
Also the article mentions a rather important detail:
>”The European Commission lifted a ban on imports of four Ukrainian grains, including wheat and maize, on Friday **on the condition that Kyiv agreed to prevent surges of grain into neighbouring EU countries.**”
…which sounds a lot like “there is already a solution but some choose to ignore it”.
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> Germany has led condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia’s unilateral curbs on grain imports from Ukraine, accusing the countries of cherry-picking EU policies and putting their own interests over Ukraine.
I completely agree with the German minister here.
Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary should abide with EU rules and stop trying to fuck over Ukraine.
Can’t wait for Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary to lead the condemnation of chinese EV ban.
Transit will still be allowed, so Germany can buy Ukrainian grain. I don’t see any obstacles.
Policies or not, each of those countries have the freedom of not buying something they think detrimental to their citizens.
I’m sympathetic to Poland, Romanias, Slovakias and Hungarys viewpoints but you can’t unilaterally pick which EU policies to follow and disregard the rest. I think that’s the biggest issue in all of this.
What if Germany started picking when, how much and to whom the money it sends to the EU goes to? Instead of going through the EU that is. If Germany said that it’ll stop giving money to the EU until Hungary and Poland retracts its undemocratic reform it’d still be wrong.
It shouldn’t be a problem to transit all that grain directly to Germany. I’m sure their citizens will be thrilled to eat bread that has more pesticides than flour.
what a shitshow
So the EU prefers to accept imports that don’t follow the rules and regulations that it imposes on its member states, killing off its agriculture in the process, creating huge social unrest, increasing euroscepticism and diminishing support for Ukraine, instead of banning the imports and finding a way to financially help Ukraine for the loss.
Funny headline, given that the lithuanian commissar, and the french and spanish agricultural ministers have pretty much said exactly the same as the german minister. Guess the usual suspects have to be the evil ones.
Also the article mentions a rather important detail:
>”The European Commission lifted a ban on imports of four Ukrainian grains, including wheat and maize, on Friday **on the condition that Kyiv agreed to prevent surges of grain into neighbouring EU countries.**”
…which sounds a lot like “there is already a solution but some choose to ignore it”.