Polish farmers blocked the Hizne checkpoint on the Polish-Slovak border. They convince us that it is along these roads that agricultural products from Ukraine and Russia enter Poland.
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It is preliminary known that the protest will continue until the end of March, Radio Liberty reports.
Polish agricultural workers will allow one truck per hour; the protest does not apply to passenger vehicles and buses.
In addition, Polish farmers intend to close the border with Germany for three days. On Sunday, March 17, protesters intend to close the A12 Berlin-Warsaw motorway at the Swiecko crossing at 13:00 local time and reopen it only at 22:00 on Wednesday evening.
About 17 thousand trucks travel along the A12 highway between Germany and Poland every day. If the farmers’ plans are implemented, trucks will be forced to travel hundreds of kilometers in detours.
The longest traffic jams are expected to occur on the Polish side of the border. This is due to the fact that at the beginning of the week the flow of trucks traditionally moves from east to west, and from the middle of the week from west to east. Frankfurt an der Oder police cannot yet say anything about traffic in the city.
We are still waiting for reliable data,” the police told BILD.
The situation with blocking the border with Ukraine will be resolved within a few weeks, said Pavel Kowal, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Sejm, on March 13. He noted that farmers’ protests are taking place throughout Europe.
I don’t understand why everyone associates them with Ukraine. They do not concern, first of all, Ukraine or any Ukrainian issues,” he said.
Note that Polish protesters are against European agricultural policy, as well as for a ban on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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