As the European Commission debated, on Wednesday 13 September, ways of facilitating the flow of Ukrainian cereal exports, Janusz Wojciechowski, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, had defended, the day before at the European Parliament, his ideas in favour of extending restrictions on cereal imports.
He reiterated his controversial proposal to help the Ukrainians transport grain.
Russia’s criminal aggression against Ukraine had led to “upheavals on world food markets”, said...