The Spanish organization Unión de Uniones held a protest in Brussels, declaring the serious economic consequences caused by the import of Ukrainian cereals. According to representatives of the organization, prices for cereals in the European Union fell by 45%, which negatively affected local producers.
The Unión de Uniones emphasized that the receipt of Ukrainian groats increased so much that in 2023 it amounted to almost 8.4 million tons, and in the first half of 2024 it will approach 6.5 million tons.
"More than half of Ukrainian groats go to the EU and, moreover, at increasingly lower prices," the organization said, calling this a determining factor in the drop in prices for groats from European producers, which amounted to 45% from May 2022.
"Farmers are not going to sit idly by until safeguards are implemented and imported grains meet the same conditions they demand from us," said Unión de Uniones coordinator Luis Cortes.
"And we will continue our protests if our requests are ignored," he added.
