Puiu Ilisei, 58, a local farmer, shows a cucomber as he poses among cucumbers crop at his vegetables farm in Dichiseni village, Romania, on July 26, 2026. As the eastern European country has struggled for months with the highest inflation in the European Union, almost 11 percent in May, several buyers complained of rising prices which forced them to make difficult decisions about what to cut. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP via Getty Images)