“We must take into account this new alignment quickly. Not only we, the Europeans, have to join our efforts, but also, we, the Europeans together with international agencies and with all our partners, including non-profit organisations, to avoid something bigger than the war, that is, a global food crisis,” Le Drian said ahead of an EU foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels.
“We will exchange views with our Ukrainian counterpart, the agriculture minister, after lunch to discuss Europe's support for Ukraine, and the situation at the international level, given the risks in terms of food that this war can lead to on European soil, on Ukrainian soil,” he said at a doorstep of an EU agriculture and fisheries council meeting in Brussels.