Following the ‘Agriculture’ Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 11 December, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, said that as part of the negotiations to extend the trade liberalisation measures with Ukraine, which expire in June 2024, it would be appropriate to instigate “a new safeguard instrument” in response to excessive imports of poultry, eggs and sugar from Ukraine into Europe.
“The Commissioner spoke on his own behalf”, said a European...