Carriers, as they announced, besides protested during Christmas and fresh Year. Let us remind that the protest of Polish carriers on the Polish-Ukrainian border has continued continuously since 6 November, or 2 months. Farmers from the Defrauded Village besides returned to the Medica border.
And it was about the protest of carriers and farmers that 1 of its organizers and at the same time the Confederacy policy spoke at Radio Wnet, Rafał Mekler:
– We protested all the time. Minister Klimczak was here before Christmas. We shared a wafer, we talked, and we stayed on the border for Christmas. We're inactive protesting. We protest due to the fact that small changes. The Ukrainian side has barely spoken to us in 2 weeks. Neither does the EU organization take any steps. The only organization that talks to us, who tries to do anything in this matter, is the government side, the Polish side. And on this axis there are mostly talks about solving the problem of protesters.
– Before Christmas there was this effort to play farmers. This was coordinated with the visit of representatives of our government in Kiev, in a fewer days there were various visits. First of all, possibly the most important, that is Mr. Sikorski's visit. The Ukrainian side was promised, just as it can be read from these media signals that we heard that this border would be unlocked. I think that it was about the border in Medicine, due to the fact that it was comparatively easy to unlock, due to the fact that the organization that was able to fulfil these agricultural demands was fundamentally a 100 percent Polish side.
I remember that farmers received a paper just before Christmas – possibly a paper is simply a strong word – but any kind of agreement, signed by the Minister of Agriculture, was besides Kołodziejczak. Farmers on the basis of this agreement suspended the protestThey left the border, and as we see, they came back this morning. They did not see any advancement with respect to the implementation of this commitment and so returned to the borderOh, my God!
“We absolutely support farmers as carriers. It should be borne in head that the problems of farmers and ours, in fact, will be reflected in the common policy of the EU and the erstwhile written government. That is simply a kind of Messianic east policy, especially PiSu.
– The protest itself must be a nuisance. The protest is, in fact, the left hand to make certain that the another side, or government side, is determined to fill these demands of the protesters as shortly as possible. Now, if we were to get out of the protest, who would want to talk to us? It's like, I don't know, it can be compared to a situation where 2 armies meet, and the another army asks: then take the soldiers, then we'll make peace or truce. It's apparent it doesn't work like that.
– And we are talking about a real decline in the participation of Polish companies in the Ukrainian market. We're talking about Ukrainians were allowed to enter the Union marketplace without actually keeping all the requirements that EU carriers have. Without all the costs that EU carriers have. So in fact, this peculiar ecosystem has been allowed an component that can work in it much, much more comfortable conditions.
@MeklerRafal In @RadioWNET ws. #The Carrier Striker: delight note that we are talking about numbers, we are talking about a real decrease in the participation of Polish companies in the Ukrainian market, we are talking about that Ukrainians have been allowed into the EU marketplace without actually keeping all these... pic.twitter.com/BD8dF9UjWl
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