Many Dutch goods that were once exported to Russia – from chips and trucks to electronics – are no longer allowed to be sold to Russians due to EU sanctions.
Flowers continue to be delivered to Russia from the Netherlands, and businessmen do not intend to stop doing so. According to businessmen, “money spent on plants will not go to tanks, besides, flowers make people happy.” About this on Tuesday, February 28, the publication NU wrote.
“Flowers are not subject to European Union sanctions, and growers and exporters have little moral objection,” the article said.
The publication states that the Netherlands, after the introduction of strict anti-Russian sanctions, stopped sending many goods to the Russian Federation. However, the ban does not apply to flowers.
“Although it is no longer possible to send bushes to this country,” the journalists pointed out.
It was noted that flower growers do not see moral contradictions in such a policy and are ready to sell flowers to Russians.
“Tulips make people happy,” Arian Smith, a spokesperson for the Dutch company Smit Flowers, told NU. According to him, the entire tulip sector of the Netherlands annually sells about 6% of these flowers to Russia, almost all of them on March 8th.
According to the Dutch Association of Flower Wholesalers, Russia has fallen out of the top ten export destinations for this product. And the Dutch statistics agency CBS reported this week that the value of exports of flowers and plants to Russia will decrease by 19% – to 324 million euros – in 2022.
As reported, on February 25, the EU approved the 10th package of sanctions against Russia. The list includes 121 individuals and legal entities, introduces significant new import/export restrictions, and bans Russian propaganda media. The EU has imposed sanctions against three major banks – Tinkoff, Alfa-Bank and Rosbank.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine is working to expand international and European sanctions to include Russia’s nuclear industry and Rosatom.
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Source: korrespondent
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