Mercosur, Green Deal and Ukrainian cereals from Ukraine. Farmer protest.

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I saw farmers protest – against Mercosur, Green Deal and imports from Ukraine.

I don't know farming like that. Tractors worth millions of PLN, dressed with Polish flags and banners: “Get out of the EU” and “Get out of Tusk”.

Agriculture must be a large business.
I remember another village. Hard-working.
Or possibly it is no longer a "Polish village", but a prosperous business sector – people making money in agriculture-related industries.

Political facts and chronology

2015 – Farmers win the PiS in parliamentary elections.
December 2015 – Prime Minister Beata Haddock agrees to Paris Agreement Poland declares emissions reduction and an $8 million deposit to the Green Climate Fund.
April 2016 – Beata Szydło signs the Paris Agreement in fresh York:
"The climate agreement meets our expectations. It is good for Poland.”
October 2016 – The government of Beata Szydło adopts a resolution on the ratification of the Paris Agreement. This is crucial for EU-wide designation of climate change
2016-2017 – The Law and Justice Government at the European Council agrees on conclusions calling for faster negotiations with Mercosur.Poland does not block talks, although it had the possibility.
February 2018 – Moravian, together with Germany and Spain, signa message calling on the European Commission to conclude negotiations rapidly and successfully with Mercosur.
Argument: benefits for Polish manufacture and diversification of exports.
June 2019 – Commissioner EU Agriculture from the Law and Justice Janusz Wojciechowski:
‘Beef import from MercosurThis Only 1.5% of EU consumption – 2 burgers. per individual per year’.
June 2019 – Minister Jadwiga Emilevich: Mercosur This is an chance for Polish exporters and the abolition of duties of up to 35%.
August 2019 – Following protests by French farmers, French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will not ratify the agreement in its current form.
September 2019 – After the protests of Austrian farmers The Austrian Parliament commits the government to veto Mercosur.
December 2019 – after protests in France, Ireland, Austria and Poland The Law and Justice Government joins the blocking states. Poland will not find it now. I'm screwed.
October 2019 – Farmers vote for the Law and Justice again.
December 2019 – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accepts the EU's climate neutrality mark by 2050 (European Green Governance).
December 2020 – MoravianThat's right. per package Fit for 55 (55% of emissions reductions by 2030).
January 2021 – Minister of Agriculture Henry Kowalczyk:
"Green Deal is simply a large chance for Polish farmers".
May 2021 – Government introduces Polish LAD, consistent with assumptions Green Deal and KPO.
June 2021 – Morawiecki supports European Climate Law.
September 2021 – Morawiecki:
‘RGreen Deal oil will strengthen tiny and medium-sized farms”.
December 2021 – Janusz Wojciechowski:
"The CAP improvement is 100% in line with the PiS agricultural programme".
January 2022 – Wojciechowski:
"Green Dealing in Agriculture is full in line with the PiS programme".
February 2022 Russia is attacking Ukraine.
June 2022 – The EU abolishes customs duties and quotas for agricultural products from Ukraine.
July 2022 – Jarosław Kaczyński assured that Ukrainian grain “is not a threat” to Polish farmers And that no 1 will lose it:
“No 1 will lose, everyone will sale their grain at truly decent prices, even if inflation is included.”
Summer 2022 – decisions of the PiS government:
– no real import control,
– no discrimination between transit and import,
– Ukrainian cereals stay in Poland.
Autumn 2022 – acquisition prices are dropping rapidly, warehouses are full.
Winter 2022/2023 “The crisis is increasing, millions of tons of grain are behind in the country.
March 2023 – mass protests of farmers, the discovery of pathology in grain trade.
2025 – Farmers support PiS candidate, Karol Nawrocki.

Questions about social mechanisms

Looking at this summary, it is hard not to ask any fundamental questions:

Propaganda effectiveness
Was the PiS media camera powerful adequate to convince farmers that the decisions made by Morawiecki and Szydło governments are responsible... Donald Tusk?
Refutation of facts
Are we dealing with mass amnesia? Or was organization and ideological loyalty stronger than real economical experience, self-interest?
Identity versus interest
Why is the professional group, which was peculiarly badly affected by the sluggishness of the government in 2022, present protesting side by side with the authors of these negligencees?
Why is he protesting with those who put us into the Green Deal and the Mercosur deal?

Has the Polish village become a hostage of its own emotions?

Or did political cynicism simply win with a logical analysis of facts?

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