Reading Time: 2 minutes Polish farmers increased the number of trucks they let through the Dorohusk border crossing with Ukraine on Wednesday but backpedaled on a promise to unblock it completely, state news agency PAP reported on Wednesday.
Polish farmers backtrack on unblocking Ukraine border crossing, PAP reports
Protesting farmers say they will block Slovakia border against Ukrainian, Russian goods until end of month
EU countries to demand bloc does more to help farmers, draft statement says
Reductions in farm inspections, exemptions for small farms under consideration
Reading Time: 2 minutes European Union country leaders will urge the EU to work quickly on more measures to support farmers in response to months of protests by angry agriculture workers, draft conclusions for an EU leaders' summit showed.
Europe’s grain farms await rain break after damp winter
Weak prices for maize could encourage planting other crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain growers in western Europe will need rain to ease this month to progress with spring planting, after a wet February maintained soggy field conditions that have already put the region on course for a smaller wheat harvest, analysts said.
Polish farmers clash with police outside parliament in Warsaw
Officers wounded, several people detained, police say
Reading Time: 2 minutes Protesting farmers clashed with police outside the parliament building in Warsaw on Wednesday, with police using pepper spray and accusing some participants of violence against security forces.
Poland urges EU sanctions on Russian, Belarusian farm products
Polish farmers have been protesting EU environmental regulation, competition from Ukrainian imports
Reading Time: < 1 minute Poland plans to ask the European Union to put sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products as it seeks to meet the needs of protesting farmers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday during a visit to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Polish farmers take grain protests to Lithuanian border
Farmers continue to protest against what they say is unfair competition from outside the EU
Reading Time: 2 minutes Polish farmers protested on the border with Lithuania on Friday against what they say are imports of Ukrainian grain through the Baltic country, something the Lithuanian officials deny.
Companies in Ukraine see problems pile up, but most tough it out
Blockades, capital controls, insurance costs weigh on companies
Reading Time: 4 minutes German supermarket chain Metro and its 3,400 employees in Ukraine have worked hard to get their business back to where it was before Russia's full-scale invasion two years ago.
Poland may ban Russian agricultural imports, says PM Tusk
Latvia has already implemented a ban
Reading Time: < 1 minute Poland doesn't rule out introducing a ban on agricultural products from Russia, the prime minister said on Thursday during a visit to Warsaw by his counterpart from Latvia, which has already implemented such a ban.
Poland mulls wider ban on Ukrainian food imports as farmers warn of more protests
Further talks with Ukraine planned for Wednesday, agriculture minister says
Reading Time: 3 minutes Warsaw | Reuters -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he could not rule out widening a national ban on imports of Ukrainian grains to other products if the European Union does not act to protect the bloc's markets.
Poland-Ukraine government talks set for March 28, farmer protests persist
Farmers have broad public support; gov. trying to balance farmer, defense needs
Reading Time: 2 minutes Poland's prime minister said on Thursday the Polish and Ukrainian governments would meet in Warsaw on March 28, but did not accept a request by Ukraine's president for urgent talks on border blockades by Polish farmers.
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