date:May 19, 2016
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Just last year, half of the tomatoes and cucumbers imported arrived from countries outside the European Union. It is the same case for a quarter of the apples in store shelves.
In any case, it is believed that the introduction of minimum prices can only partially solve the problem. Food imports last year stood at 5.8 billion Euro; of this amount, only 1.1 billion came from non-EU countries. The rest are imports from European Union countries to which Romania cannot introduce safeguards,