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Poland threatens to keep Ukrainian grain ban after embargo date expires

A combine harvester reaps grain on a field near Witowo, Poland, August 2023 [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

Poland’s government has called on the European Union to extend the embargo on imports of Ukrainian grain beyond an end-of-week deadline to protect Polish farmers.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday he has requested that the European Commission, the EU’s executive, extend the ban on the entry of Ukraine corn, wheat, sunflower and rapeseed or else “we will do it ourselves because we cannot allow for a deregulation of the market.”

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