Panic hurts Europe

The Russian ban on vegetables will have an extremely negative impact on the EU's agriculture sector, writes the daily De Standaard and calls on Europe to take action: "At a time when the price of food is spiralling, the best we can come up with is to throw it away, turn it into fodder or leave it to rot in the fields, simply because no one wants it any more. That Russia and other distant markets are closing their borders is regrettable, but only to be expected. However it's worrying that Europe is once again divided by internal conflict. We saw it with the bank crisis, we are seeing it with the Greek financial crisis, soon everyone will be doing their own thing on the energy market and now we are seeing it again with this food panic. Europe, which wants to open its borders and keep them open is now having to watch how short-sighted communication forces them to close again and trigger an economic disaster that is completely out of proportion to the cause."

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