Farmers are becoming increasingly anti-EU. This is amazing due to the fact that there are EU subsidies, but fewer people point out that they are not indexed – unlike pensions or wages, which grow with inflation. Indeed, in agriculture, inflation importantly "eats" the real value of EU subsidies.
1. EU subsidies are (almost) fixed nominally.
Direct payments are set in euro per hectare and are changing very slowly.
Average direct payment rate:
• 2016 – 245 EUR/ha
• 2023 – 246 EUR/ha
• 2025 – 250 EUR/ha
So over 9 years growth by only approx. 2% nominally.
2. Inflation at the same time was repeatedly higher – the cumulative reached around 60%.
The real value of the aid (purchase power) fell from approx. PLN 1050 to the equivalent of about PLN 600.
For the same surcharge in euro today, you can buy 60% little than 10 years ago on average. And the cost of fertilizers, fuel, energy and feed increased by 50-150%.
Farmers so feel that they have been "on ice": costs are increasing, environmental requirements are expanding and support from Brussels is actually decreasing.
In addition, there is propaganda of the Church – the words of St John Paul II about building a community with Europe were forgotten – and the communicative of nationalist parties: PiS, Confederacy and Braun's group. No wonder that anger, frustration and anti-EU attitudes are increasing among farmers.
The combination of economical interest with the xenophobic pseudo-Christian ideology preached in many churches led to the retreat of villages from democratic values, individual freedoms and the thought of a European community. This besides gave a triumph to the moralityless Nawrock.
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