Spanish farmers from the association Unión de Uniones held a rally in front of the European Commission building in Madrid on Monday demanding action against excessive grain imports from Ukraine, uniondeuniones.org reported.
According to the report, the association also denounced the speculation on feed prices that livestock farmers are suffering from.
“Unión de Uniones held a rally in front of the European Commission building in Madrid to protest against excessive imports of agri-food products that create unfair competition with European production, especially grain from Ukraine, which cause prices to fall for farmers while ranchers continue to pay for expensive feed,” the report said.
The association has registered a letter to the president of the European Commission with its demands and proposals to resolve the situation.
Unión de Uniones will unite about thirty producers representing the main producing regions of Spain.
The European Union is changing the rules for crossing borders by foreigners, including Ukrainians, the press service of the Ukrainian government reports.
“Starting November 10, a new IT system EES (Entry/Exit System) will be launched at the EU borders. It will automatically record the entry and exit of all foreigners to the Schengen countries. This applies to all non-EU citizens, including Ukrainians, regardless of whether they have a visa or a visa-free regime,” the telegram channel said.
The EES system will reportedly record the biometric data of a person crossing the border once and store it for three years.
“There will be no more stamps in the passport. Registration will take place automatically through self-service terminals,” the government said.
Thus, when a person enters the EU for the first time, biometric data will be taken: fingerprints and a photo of the face.
“The border crossing time may increase by about 40 seconds while your data is being collected. The biometric data will be stored for 3 years, and you do not need to re-submit it. If you refuse biometrics, you will be denied entry. Then, every time you cross the border, you will need to scan your passport at a self-service terminal,” the statement explains.
The new system is expected to simplify border crossings, enhance security with biometric documents, and help prevent the use of fake passports and combat illegal migration.
France will provide Ukraine with at least EUR60 million by the end of this year, according to Pierre Elbrun, the French President’s Special Envoy for Ukraine’s Relief and Recovery.
“As winter approaches, the situation is becoming critical – we must act now to quickly offer concrete energy solutions,” he wrote on social media X following a meeting of the G7+ Ministerial Group on Energy Support to Ukraine at the level of foreign ministers on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly on Monday evening.
At the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted that the G7+ countries have mobilized more than $4 billion to support Ukraine’s energy sector since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
In a statement following the G7+ ministerial meeting, the countries welcome further commitments of funding and in-kind support to cover the most urgent needs of the Ukrainian energy sector, including repairing damaged power plants and district heating systems, deploying new, distributed energy sources, emergency backup power for critical services, and passive protection of energy infrastructure.
Geographical structure of Ukraine’s foreign trade (exports) in Jan-June 2024, thousand USD
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Vehicle traffic through the Ustyluh-Zosyn checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border has been fully resumed.
Due to a malfunction of the Polish Border Guard Service’s networks, the passage of vehicles through the Ustyluh-Zosyn checkpoint was temporarily suspended, and later the clearance was carried out in a slow mode.
Currently, the networks and databases of the neighboring party have been fully restored, so the clearance is carried out in a normal mode.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is in New York for a meeting of world officials at the United Nations, held talks with the leaders of Germany, India and Japan on Monday in an attempt to win support for Kiev’s military action, Reuters reported.
“We talked about how to bring a just peace closer,” Zelensky said on his messaging app Telegram after his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “The main thing is to keep unity,” he said.
“We talked about how to bring a just peace closer,” Zelensky said on his Telegram messaging app after his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Zelensky said he also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Germany has been one of the most significant European supporters of Kiev’s defensive struggle against Russia”.
Following the UN General Assembly sessions, Zelensky will travel to Washington later this week to present his “victory plan” to influence White House policy on the war regardless of who wins the Nov. 5 U.S. election. “We are dynamically developing our relations”, he said in Telegram after the meeting.
Reuters reported earlier this month that artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers were diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi did not intervene to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow, India enjoys warm relations with Russia, its main arms supplier for decades, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has refused to join a Western-led sanctions regime against Moscow.
Zelensky also held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over Japan’s energy aid to Kiev.
“Restoring power supply after Russian shelling and preparing for winter are the tasks we are now actively working on,” Zelensky said in a message on messaging app Telegram.
“Together with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, we discussed the situation in the energy sector.”
Japan was one of several countries sending aid, including $4.5 billion this year, according to the Japanese foreign ministry’s website.
