Imports from Ukraine, Green Deal: Polish farmers return to the German border
Polish farmers resume their protest movement.
They oppose Ukrainian imports, exempt from customs duties since the start of the Russian invasion, and the European Green Deal, which they consider too restrictive.
For the second time this year, they are blocking the German border.
The road leading from Frankfurt-on-the-Oder to Slubice, blocked on February 26 by demonstrators on the German side, in sympathy with Polish farmers.
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With our correspondent in Warsaw,
Martin Chabal
Poland
's farmers
are staying the course and hoping that the
European Union
can listen to them.
They have been demonstrating for several months now and believe they have had no concrete response to their situation.
They hope that by blocking the border with Germany
,
European authorities will take the problem more seriously.
Whether with the drop in raw material prices, because of Ukrainian imports, or the reduction in fertilizers, but also the carbon neutrality objective of the Green Deal, Polish farmers believe they are in a critical situation.
They demand that the European Union regulate imports from Ukraine and from borders outside the EU.
But above all, it sets higher prices for their crops in order to sell at a price that they consider fairer.
Until they get what they want, Polish farmers promise to continue the strike movement.
Trucks stuck at the border between Swiecko, on the Polish side, and Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, on the German side, must now take an alternative route.
And the blockage should last until Wednesday, before the next strike.
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