“I do not negotiate with terrorists,” announced Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on Saturday after representatives of grain producers refused to go to a meeting with the government. Among the initiators of the protests due to the renewed import of agricultural products from Ukraine are people who are considered close to President Rumen Radev.
The Bulgarian grain producers are dissatisfied and threaten to block Sofia and the main roads of the country on September 18 and 19. They complain that the state does not support them against the background of billions in European and national subsidies to the sector. Last year alone, grain producers in Bulgaria recorded a profit of BGN 2.5 billion.
“The sector cannot claim that the state does not care, given that the state gives more than BGN 2 billion, it cannot treat European requirements with disdain, given that the tractors with which they want to block the roads were bought with European funds, they cannot say that they are not interested in Europe, given that most of the funds they receive in the form of subsidies and aid are European,” said Denkov.
He called on grain producers to first give up European funds then and then to impose bans on Ukrainian goods. A day ago, the European Commission lifted a ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural produce, with Hungary, Poland and Slovakia announcing they would impose unilateral bans. The EC has the right to initiate criminal proceedings against these countries, and then impose financial sanctions.
Prime Minister Denkov says that grain producers must find a way for negotiations in the Council of Ministers
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