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Lithuania calls on the European Commission to impose stricter sanctions against food imports from Belarus and Russia to the EU market. Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Lithuania Vytautas Abukauskas called for this at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the EU, writes DELFI.
He stressed that Lithuania has already introduced stricter control over grain supplies from Russia and other high-risk countries. He welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to increase duties on grain, oilseeds and products from them, which are imported from Russia and Belarus. At the same time, the representative of Lithuania called such measures insufficient.
On March 20 the Ministers of Agriculture of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic proposed to the European Commission to ban grain imports from Belarus and Russia to the European Union. They said that Russia uses the proceeds from grain exports to the EU to finance the war with Ukraine.