The government of Hungary maintains border closure until the EU restricts grain imports from Ukraine

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Published Feb 6, 2024

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Hungary's Agriculture Minister, István Nagy, has raised concerns about Europe's agricultural self-sufficiency, blaming 'green ideologies' and insufficient market protection for agricultural products from third countries, especially Ukraine. Nagy has called for a unified European approach to limit Ukrainian grain imports, emphasizing that Eastern European interests should not be overlooked. He also disclosed that 40 tonnes of GMO-contaminated maize seeds from Ukraine were confiscated by the National Food Chain Safety Office. Nagy commended the Hungarian government's support for farmers, contrasting it with the austerity measures adopted by Western European governments.

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What is happening in Western Europe is "the sobering up of Europe, the return to normality," said Minister of Agriculture István Nagy on Kossuth Radio's Sunday Newspaper (Vasárnapi Újság) program in connection with the farmers' protests. As the Minister noted, Europe's agriculture and food self-sufficiency are currently at risk, as never before has European agriculture been so "steeped in green ideologies," while farmers are not receiving market protection for agricultural products from third countries, specifically Ukraine. He said that until a common European solution is found to restrict imports of Ukrainian grain, István Nagy stressed that they cannot allow Ukrainian grain to continue to enter the European Union in unlimited quantities, because the interests of the Eastern European countries along the borders cannot be ignored. As he explained, it is unacceptable that while the French and German lobbies are expected to remove poultry, eggs and sugar from the list of products ...

Source: Hungarytoday