The European Parliament doubts that farmers' protests are related only to imports from Ukraine

 Farmers' protests are not only related to the import of Ukrainian agricultural products. There are many other reasons, even Russian interference.

This was stated by the head of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, Bernd Lange, during a briefing in Kyiv, an RBC-Ukraine correspondent reports.

Answering the question about how the Ukrainian-Polish border can be unblocked, Lange noted that “this situation is illegal.”

“We have a clear European position on trade policy and relations with third countries, and the actions (of those blocking the border - ed.) were illegal, and the former Polish government also received a clear signal from the European Union, and now we have a situation when there is protest from the agricultural sector, from some farmers trying to block the border,” said the MEP.

According to him, the European Parliament is trying to give some opportunities to reduce the competition that they fear due to imports from Ukraine.

“For example, some kind of licenses, models, some kind of direct support for farmers, so that the situation can be calmed down. Personally, I have doubts that all the protests of farmers are really related to imports from Ukraine. There are a lot of other reasons, there is even Russian intervention in actions of farmers," Lange noted.

Also, according to him, the EU now continues to introduce tariffs on Russian agricultural products so that the situation on the agricultural market becomes calmer.

“And I hope that this will also lead to an improvement in the situation at the border. And this should be resolved in the near future,” added the head of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee.