Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said his country will not import Ukrainian grain and did not rule out a ban on such imports in line with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
“Croatia’s stance and desire is that we are a transit country, not a country receiving enormous amounts of Ukrainian grain that is cheaper than ours, which would mean our farmers are in trouble,” Croatian national broadcaster HINA quoted Plenković as saying.
Kyiv launched legal action on Monday against the three European Union countries at the World Trade Organization, over their refusal to drop a ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.
Poland, Hungary and Slovakia implemented unilateral bans to protect their domestic agricultural industries from a surge in cheap grain exports from Ukraine, defying the European Commission, which last Friday decided to allow Ukrainian grain sales across the EU.
When asked whether Croatia would implement a similar ban, Plenković would not say, but reiterated that Croatian ports were currently facilitating the passage of Ukrainian grain to third countries, according to reports.
Croatia offered use of its seaports to Ukraine while the latter’s access to the Black Sea is blocked by Russia, amid the Kremlin’s ongoing war.
It is not known how much grain has been exported via Croatian ports, but the route is “already popular,” Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said earlier this month.
Based susjedi for protecting their own.
Grain prices are global, so cheap Ukrainian grain combined with national and worldwide overproduction (here in Hungary we too had record yields this year) depresses the prices, and a ban on imports won’t change fuckall.
Unfortunately we live in a world where corporations cand buy Ukrainian grain in Germany and sell flour in Croatia, you cannot ban to protect individually.
Good, we need to stand together.
Although, our ports are helping Ukraine export grain overseas.
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germans had a plan to create a discord between Poland and Ukraine but it seems they integrated new members of EU instead 😄
And so the plot thickens.
>which would mean our farmers are in trouble
Your farmers will be in trouble when EU subs are gone. Croatian farmers get about 700 Million Euros p.a. out of the EU budget. Let’s cut this to zero and see what the real Croatian grain prices will be like in a year from now.
Lets make this a free market, if you ask for it.
How is it Ukraine’s fault if the agricultural products that would have otherwise gone to Africa or Asia if russians didn’t block it are now being taken by opportunists in EU countries that want to make a buck on them?
Let it continue to Africa if you don’t want to see local opportunistic businessmen trying to beat their own local competition by buying Ukrainian products for cheap, or look for opportunity for the local producers to ship their stuff to Africa.
First of all we don’t eat much the tourist do. Second we import everything so there’s no use in banning cuz people are sneeky.
Oh no, anyways
>says farmers would be in trouble
>hdz keeps ignoring slavonia and its agricultural capabilities
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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said his country will not import Ukrainian grain and did not rule out a ban on such imports in line with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
“Croatia’s stance and desire is that we are a transit country, not a country receiving enormous amounts of Ukrainian grain that is cheaper than ours, which would mean our farmers are in trouble,” Croatian national broadcaster HINA quoted Plenković as saying.
Kyiv launched legal action on Monday against the three European Union countries at the World Trade Organization, over their refusal to drop a ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.
Poland, Hungary and Slovakia implemented unilateral bans to protect their domestic agricultural industries from a surge in cheap grain exports from Ukraine, defying the European Commission, which last Friday decided to allow Ukrainian grain sales across the EU.
When asked whether Croatia would implement a similar ban, Plenković would not say, but reiterated that Croatian ports were currently facilitating the passage of Ukrainian grain to third countries, according to reports.
Croatia offered use of its seaports to Ukraine while the latter’s access to the Black Sea is blocked by Russia, amid the Kremlin’s ongoing war.
It is not known how much grain has been exported via Croatian ports, but the route is “already popular,” Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said earlier this month.
Based susjedi for protecting their own.
Grain prices are global, so cheap Ukrainian grain combined with national and worldwide overproduction (here in Hungary we too had record yields this year) depresses the prices, and a ban on imports won’t change fuckall.
Unfortunately we live in a world where corporations cand buy Ukrainian grain in Germany and sell flour in Croatia, you cannot ban to protect individually.
Good, we need to stand together.
Although, our ports are helping Ukraine export grain overseas.
[deleted]
germans had a plan to create a discord between Poland and Ukraine but it seems they integrated new members of EU instead 😄
And so the plot thickens.
>which would mean our farmers are in trouble
Your farmers will be in trouble when EU subs are gone. Croatian farmers get about 700 Million Euros p.a. out of the EU budget. Let’s cut this to zero and see what the real Croatian grain prices will be like in a year from now.
Lets make this a free market, if you ask for it.
How is it Ukraine’s fault if the agricultural products that would have otherwise gone to Africa or Asia if russians didn’t block it are now being taken by opportunists in EU countries that want to make a buck on them?
Let it continue to Africa if you don’t want to see local opportunistic businessmen trying to beat their own local competition by buying Ukrainian products for cheap, or look for opportunity for the local producers to ship their stuff to Africa.
First of all we don’t eat much the tourist do. Second we import everything so there’s no use in banning cuz people are sneeky.
Oh no, anyways
>says farmers would be in trouble
>hdz keeps ignoring slavonia and its agricultural capabilities
another hdz classic!