By Szymon @ Adobe Stock
Polish farmers have been operating a massive protest against EU policy and against Ukrainian imports, which have been dumped in the Polish market, threatening the livelihoods of many Polish farmers.
What Polish farmers are protesting for:
– Stop the Green Deal
– Stop the import of Ukrainian grain
– Stop the importation of meat and products without veterinary control
– Stop scamming farmers#ProtestRolnikow pic.twitter.com/qykX4u2mEH— Expat in Poland (@BasedPoland2) March 20, 2024
What Polish farmers are protesting for:
– Stop the Green Deal
– Stop the import of Ukrainian grain
– Stop the importation of meat and products without veterinary control
– Stop scamming farmers#ProtestRolnikow pic.twitter.com/qykX4u2mEH— Expat in Poland (@BasedPoland2) March 20, 2024
Polish farmers continue their protests in the city of Kielce , whose center is still blocked.
“Milk is cheaper than water,” reads one of the banners placed on an agricultural machine pic.twitter.com/caVL0IOqX1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 21, 2024
Polish farmers blocked border crossings with Ukraine, nothing goes through pic.twitter.com/Q8nBi7QibO
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) March 20, 2024
As promise Today, Polish farmers closed two checkpoints on the border with Germany. Their dissatisfaction is clearly directed: against the “Green Deal”, against the import of agricultural products from Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/A7x31Tt5XN
— SlavicFreeSpirit (@SlavFreeSpirit) March 19, 2024
Polish farmers are not only angry about the Government’s climate agenda affecting their farms, but also Ukrainian farms being exempt from tariffs. pic.twitter.com/lcxB9asgVZ
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) March 23, 2024
Al Jazeera reports on the protests:
Throwing smoke bombs and lighting fires, thousands of angry farmers demonstrated in Warsaw against European Union regulations and cheap Ukraine imports, with police reporting that two officers had been injured and a dozen protesters arrested.
Some demonstrators on Wednesday tried to force their way past security railings onto parliament grounds, according to police. Farmers also organised tractor blockades on roads across the country.
Polish farmers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine since last month to protest against what they say is unfair competition from goods entering from Ukraine.
Ukraine has seen its agriculture sector crippled by Russia’s invasion in 2022. Many of its major export routes through the Black Sea have been blocked and its farmland rendered unusable by warfare.
In a bid to help Kyiv economically, the EU in 2022 scrapped tariffs on Ukrainian goods transiting the 27-nation bloc by road.
But logistical problems mean a lot of the Ukrainian cereal exports destined for non-EU countries have accumulated in Poland, undercutting local producers.
The border blockades and grain dispute have strained ties between the neighbours, even as Poland has shown staunch support since the Russian invasion.
Farmers in several other European countries have also been protesting for weeks over these conditions.
Read more here.
If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.
