Romania's Georgescu calls on supporters to join Balkan supermarket boycott

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Romania is the latest country to join a supermarket that has gained traction across the Balkans, with far-right ultranationalist Călin Georgescu calling on his supporters to join the initiative.

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00:00Romania is the latest country to join a supermarket boycott that has spread across the Balkans.

00:09The movement started in Croatia to protest rising grocery prices and a worsening cost

00:14of living crisis.

00:17In Romania, the far-right pro-Russian presidential candidate Kalin Dzerzhescu took to social

00:22media to urge his supporters to join the boycott.

00:26He accused foreign-owned supermarkets of not selling Romanian products and eliminating

00:30cashier jobs by introducing self-checkout lanes.

00:34But others also criticized the boycott.

00:37Romania's Minister for Agriculture warned the boycott could actually harm Romanian producers.

00:42If we are talking about local producers and we have to integrate them into retail stores,

00:47we have to talk about quantity.

00:49That is why we, the Ministry of Agriculture, have always encouraged cooperation to be able

00:55to improve the quality of retail and to negotiate so that these Romanian products, made through

01:01cooperation, are sold in retail stores.

01:04While supermarket prices are still a concern for many Romanians, some people have also

01:09started a counter-boycott, calling on people to support Romanian brands at their local

01:13supermarkets on Monday.

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