The European Union should fund, as part of its aid to Ukraine, the transportation of grain to designated ports, said European Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.
The problem of exporting Ukrainian grains can be solved by extending the ban on its imports to five European front-line countries until the end of 2023 and thanks to EU transit subsidies. This was said by the European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski on the air of Polish Radio on Monday, August 21.
Wojciechowski proposed that the EU finance, as part of its aid to Ukraine, the transportation of grain to designated ports, from where the grain will go to Africa and Asia.
“My task is to convince the European Commission and member states that, firstly, the EU would be better to subsidize the movement of grain from Ukraine to ports and third countries, and secondly, it is necessary to extend the import ban in these five countries. , including Poland at least until the end of the year,” he said.
The EU Commissioner believes that importing grain from Ukraine to border countries is an “unprofitable decision” for Ukrainian farmers.
“This is mainly a speculative trade: the fact that war-torn Ukraine has low prices is used, and some are trying to use it … Therefore, it is necessary to block the border trade, like today, and help. Ukraine with transit, because it is unity at the global level because there are countries that really need Ukrainian grain,” said Voitskhovsky.
The European Commissioner recalled that grain transportation from Ukraine through Poland does not pay. The traditional markets for Ukrainian grain, according to him, are Indonesia, Egypt, and the road to these countries does not pass through Poland. If the Black Sea is open, as it was before the war, there will be no export pressure on Poland. When the Black Sea is blocked, alternative routes need to be found, Voitskhovsky said.
He added that Ukraine is capable of exporting about 4 million tons of grain per month. The EU, he stressed, is able to bring such quantities of grain to the ports, but “funds are needed for this.”
As you know, on May 2, the EU imposed a ban on the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine to Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, and on June 5 it was extended until September 15.
The representatives of these five countries have repeatedly expressed the need to extend this period after September 15, as well as the possible expansion of restricted goods.
Ukraine insisted that September 15 was the last date by which the ban should not be extended, otherwise Kyiv would be forced to consider mirror measures.
Source: korrespondent
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