Polish farmers on Tuesday brought tractors to a complete standstill at the border with Ukraine, protesting the “uncontrolled” influx of cheap agricultural products from the war-torn neighboring country, severely impairing their ability to continue doing business. He claimed that there was.
In a serious blow to recently installed globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has promised to be “the most pro-Ukrainian politician in Europe,” hundreds of Ukrainian farmers storm the border crossings in Lublin and Podkarpacze. blockade, again infuriating Kiev.Tractors have completely blocked large transport trucks from leaving the country, causing queues stretching for tens of miles, Poland’s PAP news agency report.
Tractors carrying red and white Polish flags carried signs reading: “Stop the unchecked influx of Ukrainian products” and “Agriculture is dying little by little.”
Tomas Gorak, a farmer who took part in the protest, told Agence France-Presse AFP. Said: “I am here to abandon the fallow restrictions and the Green Deal introduced by the European Union, and above all because these Ukrainian foods will no longer be available,” adding, “This year, wheat will cost half as much in Ukraine. Sold in “Last year”.
DROHASK, POLAND – FEBRUARY 20: Hundreds of trucks line up as Polish farmers continue to blockade the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Drohask, Poland, on February 20, 2024. An aerial photograph of the aircraft waiting there was taken. The long-running blockade centers on demands by Polish farmers and truck drivers to restrict imports of Ukrainian agricultural products. (Photo by Omar Marquez/Getty Images)
Another farmer, Michal Magnuszewski, said the protests were the result of a “total failure” of EU policy, adding: “How can we open our borders to something that is not controlled in any way? Is that so?” he said. When we ship something overseas, it goes through hundreds of different inspections, but we don’t do anything here, it gets here and that’s it. ”
Prime Minister Tusk, a former president of the European Council, has sought to rekindle relations between Poland and other globalist powers in the bloc after years of conflict with the previous conservative government of his Law and Justice Party (PiS). Ukraine is doing everything possible. But little is said about how the former Polish government was already one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine in Europe.
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Tusk, who took office in December, vowed to lead efforts to launch “the mobilization of the free world, the Western world, to support Ukraine in this war.”
However, relations between the two neighboring countries remain strained over agricultural issues.President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Said On Monday, it said the tractor blockade of the border by truck drivers and farmers showed “a decline in solidarity” against Ukraine.
“Enemy shelling continues in the vicinity of Kupiansk, close to the Russian border, and the news from the Polish border seems openly mocking,” Zelenskiy added.
Mr. Tusk is trying to bring Poland into the globalist ranks of Western neoliberal countries such as France and Germany, but given the near universality of peasants, there is enough political power to actively attack them. It’s unclear whether he believes the funds are domestic. He is a supporter and therefore a dangerous political opponent just two months into his premiership.
Agricultural issues are likely to be a major topic of discussion in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in June. Farmers’ groups are protesting across the continent, including in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania and Poland.
As Polish farmers block the Warsaw-Lublin highway on the outskirts of the town of Riki in the Lublin region, a man holding a Polish flag passes by and a tractor-trailer reads: “Stop the unregulated supply of supplies from Ukraine.” A written banner is being hung. On February 20, 2024, farmers across the country raised their voices in protest against the EU’s climate measures. Polish farmers resumed blocking around 100 roads leading to the Ukrainian border on the morning of February 20 to protest against “unregulated” imports and demand changes to EU agricultural policy. . Polish farmers have been blocking Ukrainian trucks from entering their country for weeks, angry at unfair competition from cheaper imports from their war-torn neighbor and ally. (Photo by Sergey Gapon/AFP) (Photo by Sergey Gapon/AFP via Getty Images)
The EU has announced some concessions, such as rolling back subsidy cuts and ending anti-meat propaganda, but key issues such as green regulations on nitrogen and other emissions remain. Farmers in the bloc are all opposed to opening up to Ukrainian agriculture, as Ukrainian agriculture can produce at much lower costs due to lower labor costs and fewer regulations within the former Soviet Union.
However, it is unclear whether globalist politicians such as Donald Tusk and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen are willing to make concessions on imposing tariffs on Ukrainian agriculture, and This is because they are seen as important in supporting proxy war efforts.
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