The European Union’s leaders backed the plan to utilize the Central Bank of the Russian Federation’s frozen assets to benefit Ukraine, including levying an income tax on them. Sydorov reports this with reference to Bloomberg and Reuters. EU leaders are supporting a proposal to implement a tax on profits from Russian central bank assets worth … Read more
The European Union will gradually lift its ban on imports of certain agricultural products from Ukraine to Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia by Sept. 15, the press service of the European Commission has said. The restrictions will be reduced from 17 to 6 tariff lines for four products — wheat, maize, rapeseed, and sunflower … Read more
The European Commission has included Ukraine’s economy in its economic forecasts for the first time, according to the European Economic Forecast, Spring 2023, released on May 17. Along with Ukraine, the European Commission has also assessed the economies of Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were also granted candidate status for EU membership. According to the EU Commission’s … Read more
Moldova is planning to join the European Union’s decision to restrict imports of agricultural products from Ukraine, the Moldovan Ministry of Agriculture reported on May 6. The European Commission banned the imports of four Ukrainian products to five EU countries on May 2, citing “severe logistical bottlenecks” in processing those goods. On May 6, Moldovan Agriculture Minister Vladimir Bolea informed his … Read more
Ukraine has become the first non-EU country to be added to the European Union’s trusted list, enabling the automatic verification of Ukrainian electronic signatures and seals on digital documents within the EU, and the confirming of their validity. Ukrainians will be able to sign European contracts, documents, and applications using the Diia. Sign-EU digital signature, … Read more
The European Commission on Tuesday adopted exceptional and temporary precautionary measures on imports of certain agricultural goods from Ukraine after pressure from five European Union member states, which blamed Ukrainian imports for the collapse of local prices. Sydorov writes about this with reference to the message of the European Commission. The import ban concerns four … Read more
The European Commission may ban the import of five agricultural products from Ukraine until the end of the year, Ukrinform quoted EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski as saying on April 25. The list will include corn, wheat, rapeseed, sunflower, and sunflower oil, he said. “We’re very close to a good deal, which provides for a temporary ban on five … Read more
The European Dairy Trading Community Eucolait opposed the ban by Poland, Hungary and Slovakia on the import and transit of Ukrainian agricultural products, in particular dairy products, due to its minimal impact on the European market. “We can say overall for the EU that the impact of dairy imports from Ukraine has been minimal,” Alice … Read more
The European Union will take preventive steps against agricultural products from Ukraine and add EUR 100 million in financial aid to protesting farmers, the Interfax-Ukraine reported on April 19. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on the governments of five EU member states (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria) to develop a common European approach, as is required … Read more
The European Commission (EC) doesn’t support the member states’ decision to introduce unilateral restrictions on importing grain and other food products from Ukraine. Miriam Garcia Ferrer, the spokesperson for the European Commission on Agriculture and Trade, announced during a briefing in Brussels that the EC is in contact with the authorities of these countries and … Read more