The governments of Poland and Hungary separately confirmed on Friday that the respective bans on imports of four types of Ukrainian agricultural products in the two countries will remain in place even though the European Commission allowed its own measures to expire earlier in the day.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a meeting with voters in the city of Elk that the government will support Polish farmers and "not listen to" European leaders. Elsewhere, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy issued a similar statement but added that Hungary will close its borders to 24 Ukrainian products in total.
The European Commission said that, under the deal made today, Ukraine will have to provide a plan "to control the export of 4 groups of goods in order to prevent any market distortions" in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia before introducing "legal measures ... to avoid grain surges."
