The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to classify documents regarding talks with the Ukrainian side on solving the crisis affecting Polish farmers, PiS politicians who went to the ministry with parliamentary control said on Tuesday.
- PiS politicians – the head of the club, Mariusz Błaszczak, and MPs: Paweł Jabłoński and Waldemar Buda, went to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with parliamentary control on Tuesday.
- As they announced, they wanted to check whether the Minister of Agriculture, Czesław Siekierski, had started talks with the Ukrainian side regarding solving the crisis affecting Polish farmers.
However, as they announced in a short recording posted on the X platform, the Ministry of Agriculture decided to make secret the documents regarding the talks with the Ukrainian side.
Buda said in the recording that after two hours of preparing the documents, “it turned out that the minister (Siekierski) decided to keep them secret.” Jabłoński stated that the documents mentioned were public and “suddenly, when PiS politicians came to the ministry, they became secret.”
Błaszczak reported that first they were received by two deputy ministers, then they went to the appropriate department, where they were asked to wait for the documents. – We finally heard that they were classified as confidential – said Błaszczak.
He accused Siekierski of trying to obstruct the parliamentary inspection.
Farmers’ protests are ongoing in Poland and Europe. The demands of Polish farmers include: the need to simplify and limit the requirements of the Green Deal; reducing the inflow of agri-food products from Ukraine and improving the profitability of agricultural production. On Tuesday, farmers protest in Warsaw, demanding the implementation of their demands; it’s about, among other things, about the need to simplify and reduce the requirements of the Green Deal; reducing the inflow of agri-food products from Ukraine and improving the profitability of agricultural production.
