In the eastern member states of the EU, however, the issue has long assumed a very different importance: It is now a matter of domestic policy and the subject of a power struggle with Brussels.
But Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s party got a rude awakening last spring when furious farmers across the country took to the streets to protest the government’s agricultural policy and oppose the transit of Ukrainian grain across Polish territory.
Although Ludovit Odor’s pro-Western interim government has few real powers, it obviously wants to avoid driving more voters into Fico’s arms by permitting the unrestricted import of Ukrainian grain.
While Orban is targeting first and foremost his domestic supporters with such crude statements, it is likely that Hungary’s decision to maintain the import ban on Ukrainian grain is also an attempt to win over his former partners for an anti-Brussels alliance.
With his pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine stance, Orban has fallen out not only with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also with Poland over the past 18 months and is largely isolated in the region in terms of its foreign policy.
Although alone — and not the individual member states — it is responsible for trade policy and import bans within the EU, the European Commission has said it wants to analyze the measures taken by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.
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In the eastern member states of the EU, however, the issue has long assumed a very different importance: It is now a matter of domestic policy and the subject of a power struggle with Brussels.
But Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s party got a rude awakening last spring when furious farmers across the country took to the streets to protest the government’s agricultural policy and oppose the transit of Ukrainian grain across Polish territory.
Although Ludovit Odor’s pro-Western interim government has few real powers, it obviously wants to avoid driving more voters into Fico’s arms by permitting the unrestricted import of Ukrainian grain.
While Orban is targeting first and foremost his domestic supporters with such crude statements, it is likely that Hungary’s decision to maintain the import ban on Ukrainian grain is also an attempt to win over his former partners for an anti-Brussels alliance.
With his pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine stance, Orban has fallen out not only with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also with Poland over the past 18 months and is largely isolated in the region in terms of its foreign policy.
Although alone — and not the individual member states — it is responsible for trade policy and import bans within the EU, the European Commission has said it wants to analyze the measures taken by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.
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