Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki responded to the demands of farmers to block the influx of Ukrainian grain into our country, whose import leads to a drastic simplification in grain prices from Poland.
We have been dealing with the pathological situation of receiving grain from Ukraine since 1 June 2022. Since then, Ukrainian farmers have been free to import cereals into the EU under alleged solidarity corridors without tariff and non-tariff restrictions. Cereals were to pass through Poland to another countries, primarily African ones, and in practice most stay in Poland.
– A tonne of Ukrainian wheat costs PLN 700-800, while ours cost PLN 1600 in November. How do we compete? – asked the farmer in a conversation with writer Polsat News.
In connection with the ongoing and announced subsequent protests, Morawiecki commented on the matter.
– I recommended Deputy Prime Minister Henryk Kowalczyk to make appropriate rules, which will not only let to liquidate any of the Ukrainian grain that was collected in Poland and sold in northern Africa, in the mediate East – where it was expected to go – but besides to introduce appropriate rules, which will let to reduce the impact of Ukrainian grain to Poland – we read on Twitter.
Prime Minister @MorawieckiM In #KPRM: I recommended Deputy Prime Minister @Kowalczyk_H developing appropriate rules that will not only aid to liquidate part of the grain that has been harvested in Poland and sold in northern Africa, the mediate East, where it was to go – but also...
— Prime Minister's Office (@PremierRP) March 29, 2023
What a political tactic. Morawiecki says about the flooding of Poland by cereals from Ukraine, while not anyone else, and he himself is initiated flooding Poland with Ukrainian grain.
On 22 June 2022 PAP reported: KPRM chief Michał Dworczyk pointed out that the government is working to receive as much grain as possible from Ukraine, which cannot flow through blocked ports in the Black Sea. respective million tons of natural material are involved.
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