The intensification of Polish farmers’ protests is a tough challenge for the new Tusk government

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, publication ” In an article, “Day Site” pointed to the continuation of angry farmers’ protests against the policies of the European Union and the government as a challenge to “Donald Tusk”, the Prime Minister of this country, and wrote: “The protests of the farmers, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, on two ways of solidarity” with Ukraine or farmers and in this situation the right-wing opposition benefits. The pressure is on – farmers’ protests against EU environmental regulations continue and become more extreme.

Polish Prime Minister met with farmers’ associations on Saturday. to improve the situation, but apparently these negotiations did not bring success. After the discussion, the representatives of the farmers announced protests and a nationwide blockade for March 20. A member of this trade union said after this meeting: “Nothing was agreed, the prime minister basically did not announce anything. Donald Tusk himself did not comment at first.

In February, Polish farmers demanded 30 days of protests with demonstrations. and a nationwide blockade, joining a wave of farmer protests across the European Union. Farmers in Poland are also complaining about a particular problem involving their neighbor, Ukraine. Suspended imports of agricultural products from Ukraine Ukrainian grain was supposed to enter the world market easily – but some of it remained in Poland and competed with local farmers. The issue had already caused initial tensions between Poland and Ukraine in September. Poland’s then Law and Justice party government decided to ban these imports during the election campaign – but it had little effect, according to protesting farmers.

Now the government Poland is faced with a dilemma: it is one of the biggest supporters of Ukraine, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made it clear several times that he will stay that way. At the same time, he cannot ignore the farmers’ concerns. So far, 180 initiatives have joined these protests, and local elections are coming up in April. Until now, Tusk has primarily offered only verbal support to farmers. He said in February: “Polish farmers should not be victims of this war.” He had invited the leaders of the farmers’ protests to talk on Saturday morning.

Only a few protesters on Wednesday believed that Donald Tusk could find solutions They offer and many consider him a problem. One poster called Tusk a “traitor”, while others called for “Polexit” or complaining about the EU’s “fascist” regulations. In addition to closing the border with Ukraine, farmers are demanding a withdrawal from the EU’s Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral. According to Polish farmers, the proposed EU regulations in the Green Deal mean their economic destruction. One of the protestors declared that Tusk is only doing what the European Union wants.

The Polish opposition is also benefiting from this situation. Tusk = European Union = Germany is an equation that the Law and Justice Party has repeated. and announced that an unjust government is ruling in Poland. He also talks about Tusk’s actions against the media.

For Prime Minister Tusk, here is the question of creating a balancing act between the government and the citizens, Poland and Ukraine. Warsaw and Brussels are among them. His inauguration was indeed marked by a new rapprochement between Poland and the European Union. Polish farmers are no longer in a position to fall short. “They will now paralyze the country,” Tomas Obzanski, one of the organizers of the protests, told Reuters on Wednesday. The next major nationwide demonstration is planned for March 20.

In Poland, farmers have been protesting for weeks against the EU’s green deal and imports of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine. have demonstrated They want to prevent Ukraine’s cheaper grain from reaching the domestic market.

Donald Tusk announced before the meeting with representatives of agricultural associations that his government in Brussels for Suspending or changing some regulations will try for Polish farmers.

In a government statement after the talks, it was said that Tusk had informed farmers’ representatives that it was expected On March 15, the European Union Commission’s decision on this matter will be adopted.

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