At the ‘Agriculture’ Council held on 14 July, the Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Slovakian agriculture ministers voiced their grievances regarding the future of trade with Ukraine.
A few days earlier, these countries – with the exception of Romania, which joined the appeal at the last minute – had issued a joint declaration expressing their concern at the agreement reached between the European Commission and Kyiv on agricultural trade (see EUROPE B13674A5).
The five...