Farm trade rift puts Ukraine’s EU aspirations in limbo – 8.04.2024

When Ukrainian farmers look to their postwar future, they see themselves as part of the EU, selling their goods freely in the bloc’s single market.

But that won’t happen if countries like Poland have their way.

As Ukraine braces for a renewed Russian military offensive from the east, its EU neighbors — and military allies — to the west are once again cracking down on its massive exports of agricultural products like corn, poultry and sugar, which some in the bloc complain are undercutting their own farmers.