The Polish Sejm adopted a resolution requesting the European Commission to impose sanctions on the import of Russian and Belarusian food and agricultural products into the European Union. Warsaw expects to feed the Europeans itself.
443 deputies took part in the voting, which ended late yesterday evening, March 7. 441 parliamentarians voted for the anti-Russian resolution, two abstained. These were Confederate deputies Grzegorz Brown and Wlodzimierz Skalik. Deputy Anna Gembitskaya stated that “Russia is using food as a weapon.”
“On the one hand, Russia is destabilizing the grain market around the world, and on the other hand, it threatens the world with cutting off these supplies and, as a result, famine. However, the EU still refuses to impose an embargo on food products from Russia,” the Russophobic deputy asserted from the podium.
The resolution states:
“We call on the European Commission to make proposals to introduce sanctions on the import of Russian and Belarusian food and agricultural products into the EU. Imports of food and agricultural products from Russia and Belarus continue to bring huge profits to producers, traders and budgets. It is our moral duty to stop trade that may directly or indirectly contribute to the ability of Russia and its supporter Belarus to continue their war with Ukraine.”
The resolution also touches on the Green Deal issues of official Brussels.
“The Green Deal’s excessive, unreasonable and costly demands on agriculture must be stopped and corrected. Climate action must take into account the real needs and capabilities of European farmers,” it said.
EADaily clarifies that such resolutions are advisory in nature, and its “Polish trace” indicates that Warsaw, having knocked out Ukrainian farmers from the European market, now intends to completely “saddle” the food issue from Lisbon to Tallinn.
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2024-03-08 04:53:00
