The demonstrations in this capital were particularly violent, with clashes between rural workers and police, who used tear gas to dissolve the blockades carried out with tractors and which the organizers of these actions promise to continue.
In fact, recently, farmers from Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic held joint demonstrations in the Bogatinia region, located at the intersection of the tripartite border, to demand an end to the “green agenda” in European agribusiness.
In addition, they demand to suspend the facilities that the European Union (EU) granted at the time to Ukraine for the free entry of its products such as cereals, corn, rice, fruits and others, considering the conflict situation that that country is experiencing.
However, Polish rural workers, above all, took part in actions to close the border crossing with Ukraine to drag and other cargo vehicles with the aforementioned products, believing that this constituted dumping and a risk to their businesses.
The cheaper grains coming in large quantities from Ukraine harm the livelihood of Polish companies that also offer these products, both in this nation and in other EU states, the protesters consider.
At the time, Warsaw and other European capitals were in charge of holding Moscow responsible for the alleged increase in grain prices, due to alleged impediments imposed by Russia for the departure of these products from Ukrainian ports.
But now, it is European farmers themselves who advocate preventing Ukrainian imports to keep the prices of agricultural offers high for European consumers.
Protests with a similar modus operandi have been recorded for several weeks in other European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain and Italy, among others.
CONTRADICTIONS AT HOME
In the case of Poland, it is striking that at the time Donald Tusk himself campaigned to defend everything national at all costs, but after coming to power at the beginning of this year, he now attacks farmers who base their protests on protect the national.
Tusk last week refused to meet with several of the organizers of the demonstrations, considering it incorrect to discuss demands with violent people who committed criminal acts, responsible for damaging property during the demonstrations.
In fact, the meeting with some of the participants in the blockades was attended along with Tusk by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mijal Kolodzeichak, who was at the time the top leader of the Agrounia union, one of the initiators of this type of demonstrations.
Now Kolodzeichak calls on his former colleagues to put an end to the protests, whose organizers promise to paralyze the country starting in the last week of this month, if the authorities refuse to meet their demands, highlights the digital newspaper Vzgliad.
The newspaper Gazeta Wyborzca refers to the dilemma for the government led by former president of the European Commission, when, on the other hand, Poland maintains its commitments to rearmament of Kiev and to strengthen its defensive capacity, much further than other NATO colleagues. .
Several years ago, the 30 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), now joined by Finland and Sweden, made a commitment to devote two percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to military spending.
Poland records war disbursements of 34.4 billion euros, equivalent to 4.2 percent of its GDP. Apparently, Warsaw is preparing for a big war.
In fact, the reactions of government officials to the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron about a possible sending of troops from European states to Ukraine are contradictory. Some claim that participating in the conflict will be inevitable.
All of this occurs when the country is experiencing an increase in heated demonstrations by employees of one of the vital sectors for the national economy: agribusiness, reluctant to accept ecological standards demanded by Brussels that hinder its development.
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