WARSAW – Polish farmers on Jan 6 suspended their blockade of a significant crossing into neighbouring Ukraine following the finalizing of an arrangement with the Polish federal government.
Polish truckers continue to blockade 3 other primary border crossings into Ukraine – considering that November 2023 – in demonstration at “unreasonable competitors” from Ukrainian equivalents and versus the relaxation of gain access to guidelines to the European Union for Ukrainian companies.
Polish farmers had actually included their voices to the demonstrations.
“We have actually signed an arrangement with the federal government and we are waiting on its execution. The blockade has actually been suspended till our needs are fulfilled,” Mr Roman Kondrow, a demonstration organiser, informed AFP.
Following a holiday break, farmers had actually resumed their blockade on Jan 4 at the Medyka crossing in southern Poland, interfering with freight traffic in between the 2 nations, grumbling they are experiencing a tail-off in costs going back to early 2023 as an outcome of Ukrainian cereal imports.
The contract signed with the farming ministry offers a few of the aids, along with inexpensive loans which the farmers have actually been requiring.
On Jan 3, Poland’s brand-new Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated he would attempt to encourage hauliers “not to utilize the blockade as a technique to safeguard their interests”.
He worried his federal government “will do whatever” to secure their interests as they face what he called “unequal competitors”. AFP