The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, caused a stir on Thursday 22 February when he wrote to Norbert Lins (EPP, German), Chairman of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee, that the EU should put an end to Ukrainian imports of agricultural products and draw a line under the ‘European Green Deal’.
The Commissioner explained on Friday 23 February (https://aeur.eu/f/az3) that the sentence in question was “a summary of the demands” of the angry...