EU member states have agreed to tighten restrictions on imports of important Ukrainian foodstuffs to pacify angry farmers who claim goods from the war-torn country are undermining prices.
While cuts have infuriated supporters of Kyiv who want to bolster its fight against Russia, the proposed measures fall short of what Poland and France had originally demanded as the price for extending tariff-free access for most products.
Wheat will crucially be exempt from the curbs after Italy extracted a pledge from the European Commission where it committed to intervene if prices dropped too far, including by buying surplus Ukrainian cereals using public money.