The meeting between farmers and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, announced for Sunday, did not take place once again. Jan Grabiec met with representatives of the Grassroots National Farmers’ Protest. The date of the meeting with the Prime Minister is to be announced by April 16.
Representatives of the nationwide Grassroots Farmers’ Protest were to meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. They had it, because the first date, scheduled for April 11, was moved to Sunday, April 14. On Saturday, farmers were informed that due to the Prime Minister’s illness, this meeting would also be postponed.
Another change of meeting date
Farmers were offered a technical meeting with Jan Grabiec, member of the Council of Ministers, Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
Despite the disappointment, after long negotiations in the group of representatives, the farmers decided to send a reduced group of leaders to the talks.
8 members of the Grassroots National Farmers’ Protest were delegated to meet with the minister.
As a group representing the Grassroots National Farmers’ Protest, at a meeting with the Minister – Member of the Council of Ministers, the Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Jan Grabiec, we presented demands on 4 important topics, which are the demands of protesting farmers throughout Poland – wrote representatives of OOPR on social media.
The document they presented to Minister Grabiec, which is to be submitted to the Prime Minister, included the following basic demands:
- Problems of excessive import of agri-food products from Ukraine and other non-EU countries.
- Withdrawal from regulations related to the so-called New Green Deal.
- Development of animal breeding and breeding while abandoning the ideas of limiting the effects of the above-mentioned activities. sectors.
- Compensations and removal of grain surplus from the market.
Together we have agreed that the date and place of the meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk is to be announced until the Government meeting on April 16, 2024 – they informed.
The meeting with the minister was attended by Emil Mieczaj, Stanisław Barna and Patryk Turowski (representatives of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship), Damian Murawiec and Urszula Suchocka (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship), Agnieszka Beger (Greater Poland Voivodeship), Sylwia Szymańczak (Masovian Voivodeship), Monika Przeworska (Masovian Voivodeship), Krzysztof Olejnik (Łódź Voivodeship), and Zbigniew Gołda (Pomeranian Voivodeship).
What’s next with the protests?
During our last visit to the border, we heard that if the meeting with the Prime Minister does not take place or if it is not satisfactory for farmers, the protest at the border will be intensified. The borders in Medyka and Korczowa will return to the strike (currently the crossings in Dorohusk, Dołhobyczów and Hrebenne are blocked), and the form of the protest itself will change – the border will be completely blocked.
So far, buses, perishable food, humanitarian aid and the so-called ADRs, i.e. fuel transports. However, farmers announce that this situation will change and the crossings will be permanently blocked.
Due to another change of the meeting date to today, meetings were convened at the protest headquarters at the border. We will keep you updated on their findings.
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