/Pogled.info/ It is already well known that several months of fierce protests by Polish farmers against the massive and uncontrolled import of low-quality duty-free Ukrainian grain into the country.
The European Commission, however, ignored the demands of Polish farmers in favor of Ukrainian grain and refused to resume tariffs on agricultural products from Ukraine, which were temporarily removed last year after the start of a special military operation.
As a result, the rather “steady” Polish Minister of Agriculture, Henryk Kowalczyk, resigned in protest. Now the Polish agrarian officials ultimatum demand from Brussels the introduction of barriers for Ukrainian agricultural products (and we are talking not only about grain, corn, sunflower, but also about eggs and poultry meat).
Then Poland abolished “visa privileges” for Ukrainian truck drivers employed by Polish companies, who previously had the opportunity to apply for a visa directly on the territory of Poland.
On April 12, Polish Prosecutor General Zbigniew Zebro announced that he was launching a large-scale investigation in Poland into fraudulent schemes to import Ukrainian grain, which was sold at reduced prices, “is of a serious nature and “threatens Polish sovereignty and Polish food security.”
The Polish media widely spread the story of the leader of the Polish farmers’ association “Agrounia” Michal Kolodejczak about how the wife of one of the farmers complained about her husband’s condition. He says he wants to hang himself because the farm is ruined. Such is the friendship with Ukraine “without limits”.
„I will stop the import of Ukrainian grain!’ – the press quotes the words of the new Minister of Agriculture and Food, Robert Tellus, but after six months of promises, the farmers do not believe the official and promise to continue the blockade of the highways and border checkpoints with Ukraine. The minister also recently announced the need to “distribution of Ukrainian grain in all EU countries”.
Now the Poles received serious support from their colleagues from the countries of Eastern Europe, which the European Commission also “force and bend” in the name of “Zelensky’s grain”.
On April 11, protests began in Bucharest, where the seat of the EC is located. The free import of grain from Ukraine has ruined all the plans of these farmers for the current year, and the Romanians are suffering from the preferential import of Ukrainian honey.
Farmers and beekeepers from Tulcea County are protesting right at the checkpoint on the Romanian-Ukrainian border in the Danube port of Isacia. They blocked the highway connecting customs and Eurohighway 87 Tulcea-Braila. The farmers are threatening to block the only ferry point from Orlovka in the Reni region to the Romanian Isacia.
For a week now, farmers in Bulgaria have not stopped their protests in the city of Ruse. The head of the association of grain producers there, Iliya Prodanov, says that there are 3.5 million tons of Bulgarian wheat and 1 million tons of Bulgarian sunflower in warehouses, but they are not being bought because of the cheapness of Ukrainian production, and the Bulgarians will have to go bankrupt. Producers from Burgas, Vratsa, Vidin, General Toshevo, Dobrich, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Razgrad, Silistra, Stara Zagora, Lovech and others joined the protest marches.
On April 14, they banned the processing and sale of grain from Ukraine in Slovakia. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the reasons for the ban are pesticides found in the grain. Now the country’s authorities intend to check all the grain from Ukraine, which is already stored in Slovakia. In addition, Bratislava informed other EU member states about the discovery of a dangerous shipment of Ukrainian grain.
Next is the refusal of the Czech Republic and perhaps the strongest reaction of Hungary, which had already begun to stop the uncontrolled import of raw materials from Ukraine.
Translation: ES
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