Hungary and Poland extended embargo on agricultural products from Ukraine despite new agreement with the EU

Published 2025년 10월 30일

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The Hungarian government does not plan to lift the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products after the entry into force of the updated trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. This was stated by the Minister of Agriculture of Hungary István Nagy. According to him, “EU bureaucrats are not at all interested in

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what will happen to the EU, in particular, to Hungarian farmers, because they subordinate everything to Ukrainian interests.” He added that “a free trade agreement concluded with a country at war also raises serious questions.” In particular, the Hungarian minister was outraged by the increase in quotas for duty-free exports of a number of Ukrainian goods to the EU in the updated agreement. “These issues affect our daily lives, but these are not the questions they are asking, they are more interested in how to make Ukraine more capable of exporting to the European Union,” Nagy noted. The Hungarian minister stressed that the government protects Hungarian farmers and unilaterally keeps the border closed to Ukrainian agricultural products. At the same time, the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that it will not lift the indefinite ban on the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds from Ukraine in view of the entry into force of the updated ...

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