‘Ukraine agri imports could destabilise European farming sectors’

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksy and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Photo: Reuters

Margaret Donnelly

Significant surges in imports from Ukraine threaten, if continued, the stability of some European farming sectors, according to the European People's Party Group (EPP).

In a letter to President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the EPP group has voiced "the concerns of several EU agriculture sectors that are being severely affected by unlimited imports from Ukraine, following the implementation of Autonomous Trade Measures (ATMs).