Ukraine Grain Bans Show European Union May Already Have Ceased To Exist

Unilateral moves by Poland and Hungary illustrate that no one’s really in charge at Brussels.

AP/Efrem Lukatsky, file
Grain is unloaded in a granary in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine, August 9, 2022. AP/Efrem Lukatsky, file

The Polish word for awkward, niezręczny, would be an apt description of a situation in which two members of the European Union openly are openly flouting Brussels seemingly because they know they can do so without consequence. Poland and Hungary are the countries sparring with the EU in this latest pick-up game that pits national interests against a monster bureaucracy, and unsurprisingly the kerfuffle stems from Ukraine. 

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