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EU envoys strike new deal on Ukraine food imports

Ambassadors from European Union countries reached a revised deal on Wednesday to extend tariff-free food imports from Ukraine - with restrictions - after some states complained the original agreement risked destabilizing the bloc's agricultural markets.



Polish farmers use tractors as they protest against the European Union’s Green Deal and imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, in Zakret, near Warsaw, Poland March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

Polish farmers intensify protests against ‘executioner’ EU

Germany proposes income smoothing to reduce farmers' taxes in face of farmer anger

Polish farmers blocked roads with tractors and flares on Wednesday in escalating protests against EU environmental regulations and cheap food imports from neighbouring Ukraine which the bloc provisionally agreed to prolong.

A man carries a Polish flag next to burning tyres, as farmers protest outside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s office against the European Union’s Green Deal and imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, in Warsaw, Poland, March 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

EU plan to ease farmers’ fallow land requirement stalls

Farmers have staged weeks of protests against EU environmental restrictions, cheap imports

European policymakers' plan to replace a requirement for farmers to leave land fallow with a voluntary scheme has been held up by disagreement on details, the agriculture commissioner said on Friday on a visit to Warsaw.