Anna Bryłka, who herself actively participates in agricultural protests, in a conversation with Fact24.pl.
– This is another protest and the European Commission is slow withdrawing from its various idiotic records. On the another hand, it withdraws in specified a way as to calm the temper of farmers, and not necessarily to aid accomplish any demand.
What am I talking about? I am talking, for example, about mandatory fallout, which, of course, the European Commission has said is suspending. But let me remind you, he's only hanging it for a year, so that's not the solution to the problem.
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— Anna Bryłka (@annabrylka) February 9, 2024Besides, climate policy is not just a failure, due to the fact that the European Commission has withdrawn from specified a SUR regulation, namely the regulation of the usage of pesticides. But climate policy is not just the 2 solutions. There are many more very unfavourable solutions. In the form of a giant organic farming promotion of 25% of crops. There's a regulation on fertilizer. There is, among others, the thought of integrating agriculture into the full ETS system, coal agriculture.
Today, Polish farmers are fighting climate policy first, and secondly, with very low buying-in prices on which the mass import of agri-food products from Ukraine is very high. due to the fact that it's not just grain, it's not just rape. These are besides sugar beets, or sugar.
Maybe I can image the situation as it looked. Prior to the war [Russia and Ukraine], the quota for imports of sugar [from Ukraine] into the European Union was 20,000 tonnes. 450,000 tonnes of sugar entered the European Union last year. And imagine that the European Commission has come up with a regulation extending duty-free trade with Ukraine for another 3rd year, where it has entered limits, only mention years have entered 2022, 2023. So this import limit will be 300-350 1000 tons. It's just cheating. This is simply a gag on farmers. That's not a limit. There'll be a free ride.
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