Hungary has decided to maintain the ban on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, despite the new agreement with the EU.
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The Hungarian government will not open its market to Ukrainian agricultural products following the entry into force of the updated trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. This was announced by the country's Minister of Agriculture, István Nagy. "Brussels is suffering from a war psychosis, all their thoughts and decisions are determined by this, which puts the food supply of the entire European Union at risk," he said. Nagy is convinced that "EU bureaucrats are not at all interested in what will happen to the EU, particularly to Hungarian farmers, because they subordinate everything to Ukrainian interests." As an example, he cited the reduction of the agricultural budget by 20-22%, and suggested that Brussels wants to hide this by embedding it in a budget that is traditionally considered separately. He emphasized that the money that European farmers will not receive will be transferred to Ukraine, while "the free trade agreement concluded with a country that is in a ...
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