The Hungarian government will protect farmers and, if necessary, close the border to some grain products coming from Ukraine from September 16, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy told the Transit political festival in Tihany.
“If the EU does not extend the import ban on some Ukrainian grain products, which expires on September 15, Hungary will impose an import ban not only on four products, but on all 24 previous products in order to protect the domestic market,” the Hungarian publication agrarszektor.hu quoted the minister as saying.
According to him, Hungary’s agriculture has experienced one shock after another in recent years. The coronavirus epidemic, drought, the war raging in the neighborhood and its consequences, the energy crisis, and the fact that cheap Ukrainian agricultural products have flooded the European market duty-free are all difficulties for producers, he said.
“Although the harvest is better – a near-record amount of corn is expected this year – sales are facing difficulties due to cheap competition,” Nagy added.
As reported, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telusz said after a meeting of a coalition of five frontline countries in Poland on Friday that the position of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania on the need to extend restrictive measures against Ukrainian wheat, rapeseed, corn and sunflower remains unchanged – a ban until the end of 2023.
The European Commission on June 5 agreed to extend until September 15 the restrictions on wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower exports from Ukraine to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. “The restrictions do not mean a ban on the transit of these goods through Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia,” the document signed by EC chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
Source: https://www.agrarszektor.hu/szabalyozas/20230827/nagy-istvan-fenntartjuk-a-behozatali-tilalmat-44906
Four out of nine water samples taken from the water supply system in the Polish town of Rzeszów (Podkarpackie Voivodeship) have been found to contain legionella bacteria, the causative agent of legionellosis, which is dangerous for immunocompromised people.
According to Polsat TV channel, specialists took these samples on August 18. A total of 105 samples are now being analyzed.
The first case of legionellosis was detected in Rzeszów on August 18, since then the infection was diagnosed in 144 people, 11 people died – these are patients aged 65 to 91 years old with a number of related diseases.
In addition to Rzeszów, infections were also reported from the Lubelskie, Małopolskie and Wielkopolskie voivodships.
Legionellosis, or “legionnaires’ disease,” is named after the first place of detection at the U.S. military base Fort Bragg. It is an acute infectious disease caused by various species of microorganisms belonging to the genus Legionella. As a rule, the disease runs with pronounced fever, general intoxication, damage to the lungs, central nervous system, digestive organs, and possible development of multiorgan failure syndrome.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will propose to the Verkhovna Rada to equate wartime corruption with high treason, the relevant bill will be sent in the coming week.
“For me personally, the war is No. 1. Should I find more time to fight corruption? Are we going to do it? Absolutely. But I don’t have, how can I tell you, a lot of time to deal with the details, because there are really little things,” Zelensky said in an interview with Natalia Moseychuk, made public on her YouTube channel.
According to him, “if you want to fight the local paving stones, there is no way to fight the paving stones of every city.”
“There are fundamental solutions, I pay attention to them. For example, corruption. I put the task to the legislation. The legislator of Ukraine will be offered my proposals to equate corruption with high treason in wartime. And I realize that such a weapon cannot operate permanently in society. But for wartime, I think it will help,” he said.
By the end of 2023, NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy plans to complete the process of consolidating the gas distribution system operators that were managed by the Regional Gas Company of Dmytro Firtash.
“By the end of this year (we will complete the process,)” Oleksiy Chernyshov, head of the Naftogaz board, said in an interview with the Ekonomichna Pravda newspaper.
At the same time, he found it difficult to answer the question of how the debts to the GTS Operator of Ukraine of the regional gas companies transferred to the Naftogaz management will be repaid.
“I’m not ready to announce it before the process of integration of all regional gas companies is completed. We still need to figure out whose debts they are, who should be responsible for them, how they were created, and who should pay,” Chernyshov said.
As reported, at the end of May 2022, at the request of the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), the court transferred the seized private corporate rights to 26 regional and city gas distribution system operators to the management of ARMA.
On August 23, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) fined Kashtan Insurance Company (Kyiv) UAH 34 thousand for providing the regulator with knowingly false information, according to the regulator’s website.
The insurance company must pay the fine within seven business days from the date of receipt of the NBU’s decision to impose the fine.
Kashtan Insurance Company was registered in June 2002. It offers clients insurance services in 20 types of voluntary and compulsory insurance.
As reported, on August 17, 2021, the NBU revoked the license of Kashtan Insurance Company to provide compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles at the request of the company.
The Museum of Ukrainian Gramophone Recording has opened in Kyiv at the Singing Field (41 Lavrska Street), the Department of Culture of the Kyiv City State Administration reported on Sunday.
“The museum’s exposition tells the story of the history of gramophone recording. The collection consists of more than 400 items of the main fund of Ukrainian music on various sound carriers… The museum plans to expand, conduct cultural research, and organize expeditions dedicated to various aspects of the musical culture of Ukraine and the world,” the statement said.
The museum is open on Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00, admission is free.
