Polish farmers threaten to block the entire border with Ukraine in December
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Polish farmers threaten to block all border crossings with Ukraine if the government does not fulfill their demands. Farmers are demanding the preservation of the tax and opposition to the free trade agreement with South America.
Polish farmers are threatening to block all crossing points on the Polish-Ukrainian border after December 10 if the government does not fulfill their demands. This is reported by the Polish edition Rzeczpospolita, UNN reports.
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Polish farmers threatened to blockade all checkpoints on the Polish-Ukrainian border during their talks with Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekerski in Medyka. The Polish official said he would prepare a response to the protesters' demands by December 10. At the same time, Polish farmers expect strong opposition from Warsaw to the free trade agreement between the EU and South American countries. According to the Polish newspaper, they fear that "inaction could lead to the entry of agricultural products from Mercosur countries (an economic union of states in South America, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, and Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador as associate members - ed. Polish farmers are also demanding that the government keep the agricultural tax for 2024 at the same level as in the previous year.
On November 23, Polish farmers warned that they would go on strike in front of the Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint
