The European agricultural revolution is raging across the Old Continent, and more than a dozen countries have seen—or are still seeing—large protests by farmers, who have blocked highways and ports and, in some cases, like France, dumped haystacks and spread manure. In public buildings.
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We've written at length here at TGP about the motivation behind this uprising by the people who produce most of the food Europe eats: failed and obstructive “green” policies and regulations that are making agriculture unviable and threatening to encourage artificial famine in Europe. Region.
In some places, such as Poland, there is a significant disconnect between the revolting farmers and the newly installed Eurocentric world government led by Donald Tusk.
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While Tusk's government is a target of demonstrators, other officials are also under heavy criticism, such as Polish EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.
Reuters reported:
Polish politicians called on the European Union Commissioner for Agriculture to resign, today, Friday, after farmers blocked roads across his country, Poland, and at border crossings with Ukraine, at the beginning of a month-long general strike to protest European Union policies.
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Farmers in France, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Spain and Germany – among other countries – also protested against this decision. “Restrictions imposed on them under EU measures to tackle climate change” as well as rising costs and what they say is unfair competition from abroad.
“Polish farmers are angry at the impact of cheap food imports from neighboring Ukraine and what they say is their government's 'passivity'. EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has been criticized from all sides. “There is a man in Europe who united all European and Polish farmers against the reformI suggest. This is Janusz Wojciechowski. 'Resign!' said Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kuciniak-Kamiš.
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Commissioner Wojciechowski was also criticized by the same man who got the job, former ruling Law and Justice Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who said he would contact the commissioner to ask him to resign.
“Elsewhere in central Europe, a farmers' protest was held at the Zahony crossing on the border between Hungary and Ukraine.[…]
Polish media said there were more than 250 blockades across the country. Pictures showed convoys of tractors blocking roads and signs such as “Without us you would be hungry, naked and sober.”
“Today the whole of Europe is on fire. The Green Deal has arrived, which has destroyed our thinking about agriculture,” one of the demonstrators, Vislav Gryn, told the private TVN24 channel at the Hrobchov border crossing. “We are not against pro-environmental solutions, but they must be agreed with farmers.”
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Politico reported:
Farmers in Poland closed roads and major border crossings with Ukraine on Friday at the start of a month-long series of protests across the country. Farmers demand a halt to imports of agricultural products from Ukraine Halt the implementation of EU green policies – echoing demands made during protests across Europe. They also asked for more money to raise livestock.
[…] With only months left in his term, Wojciechowski has long been seen as a lame duck commissioner after he began campaigning to support PiS's failed attempt to win a third term in last fall's general election. His repeated absences from Brussels led to criticism at the time that he was “quietly resigning.”
[…] On Thursday, Wojciechowski published an open letter on the
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