We will not leave here until this changes, farmers announce during a meeting of EU Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski. – Green Deal in the trash!
The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, visited farmers protesting in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Look who’s standing here, dear commissioner. Farmers. And you tell fairy tales as if children were standing there. You see here machines, tractors. Young farmers got out of them and took out 15-20-year loans for this equipment. What will they pay it for? – asked Wacław Klukowski, the farmers’ representative.
The commissioner didn’t have an easy time. Although the meeting was calm and without unnecessary excesses, emotions still ran high.
The entire nation in Europe, in Poland, is with us today. There are hunters with us, who are also affected by EU policy, and beekeepers are with us here, said the farmers. – The Green Deal does not affect only farmers, but all industries in turn. It’s only a matter of time before they get punched in the back. We don’t accept any concessions, it’s all thrown away. All of Europe speaks with one voice, they appealed.
How can? How can you act to the detriment of your country for so long? – farmers ask the commissioner
European farmers, Commissioner, know best how to cultivate this land. Don’t impose any nonsense regulations. Suspension won’t do anything! We want the Green Deal to be withdrawn! – the farmers shouted.
During the meeting, the commissioner also received the beekeepers’ demands.
I did everything in my power to remove the bad things from the Green Deal, such as fallowing, assured the commissioner.
Farmers emphasized that the situation was extremely critical.
The actions of the European Commission have awakened nationalism in people. This is the first step to war. If nationalists wake up because of your actions, there will be war! We don’t want war! We want peace. We demand specific actions! – say farmers.
The commissioner calmly listened to all the farmers’ demands. He assured that he had made every effort to modify the Green Deal and recalled that he had been an opponent of free trade with Ukraine from the beginning.
I was in favor of not extending free trade with Ukraine. I have made it so that the rules will now be better than they were before, and there will be limits. that it will be possible to detain them from Ukraine. But I am not the trade commissioner, he argued.
However, those gathered demanded specifics.
First of all, we invite Prime Minister Donald Tusk for an interview in Szczecin. Maybe you can make me stay here. He’ll definitely listen to you more than to us. And secondly, maybe some monitoring services should be established in the European Commission and in the European Parliament – the farmers demanded.
The commissioner assured farmers that he had specific solutions for them.
Difficult conversations, but I expected them. I realized it wouldn’t be easy, but these conversations were necessary. I am also stronger if I have a voice of support for farmers and I can pass it on, said Wojciechowski. – This is a global problem, but my role as Commissioner for Agriculture is to solve what I can. There will be no fallow land this year, and a 50% reduction in pesticides will not be introduced. There are many elements of the Green Deal that have been removed. As long as I see the opportunity to do something for Poland, I will work.
The farmers invited the commissioner to the agricultural chamber for further talks.
You won’t learn more there, some farmers said. You’re just wasting your time and nothing else.
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