Polish farmers may resume border blockade with Ukraine: When it could happen
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Polish farmers may resume blocking border checkpoints with Ukraine as early as December this year, states one of the leaders of the protesters, Roman Kondrów, according to pap.pl.
According to him, Polish farmers temporarily halted the blockades of border checkpoints with Ukraine. However, the protests may resume in December and will be much larger in scale.
In particular, it is known that Polish transporters held talks with Poland's Minister of Agriculture, Czesław Siekierski. They agreed that by November 26, farmers would present their demands, and a response would be given by December 10.
"What will be decided, when and how — these demands cannot be met simultaneously, they require a series of regulatory decisions, so there will be a schedule for task completion with deadlines," Siekierski clarified.
It is noted that Polish farmers expect the government and the Polish Sejm to oppose the free trade agreement between the European Union and South American countries.
"We will suspend the protest action, but we will not abandon it. If the agreements are not fulfilled, we will return, but it will be a mass protest action along the entire eastern border of Poland," Kondrów said.
Border blockade by farmers
On November 23, Polish farmers blocked the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing with Ukraine, restricting truck movement but allowing passenger cars and buses to pass.
The protesters stated that they were striking due to unmet demands related to taxes and the European Union's signing of a free trade agreement with South American countries. None of the reasons concern Ukraine.
Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy informed RBC-Ukraine that Polish farmers have no claims against Ukrainian goods, and their protest is aimed at exerting pressure on their own government. On November 24, they unblocked the Ukrainian border checkpoint.
