Despite the EU, Poland does not open the border on September 15 for Ukrainian grain

The Polish government has decided not to open the borders for the import of grain from Ukraine on September 15, and despite the decision of the European Union, it will only allow transit, and if necessary, it is ready to extend the import ban to other agricultural products from Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced today.

"The consequences of this war must not have a negative impact on Polish agriculture. Either the European Commission will agree to prepare regulations that will extend the ban or we will do it ourselves. We will be determined, we will defend the Polish farmer," said the Polish Prime Minister at a press conference in Warsaw.

Morawiecki emphasized that everything that is bad for Polish agriculture must be blocked, changed or compensations must be paid for it.

"If there are problems and new signals of destabilization in other agricultural markets, we will do the same. Poles make money from grain transit and it does not threaten destabilization. That is why we facilitate and enable this export," said Morawiecki.

The Polish Minister of Agriculture, Robert Telus, together with the Ministers of Agriculture of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia, asked the EC that even after the expiration of the ban on imports from Ukraine on September 15, it would remain valid for four items - flour, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds. and that only transit be allowed.