Food security will again be on the agenda of the European Council on 23-24 June - an opportunity for EU leaders to say that Russia “is solely responsible for the global food security crisis it provoked”, and to call on the country to release the 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain blocked in the Black Sea (see EUROPE B12962A2).
According to a draft conclusion dated 15 June, the European Council should call for increased multilateral efforts to help those countries most vulnerable to...