Poll: over 50% of Poles blame EU and country’s former government for agrarian crisis
More than half of Polish residents believe the European Commission policies and the country’s previous government of the right-wing Law and Justice party led to a worsening of the situation of Polish farmers, provoking their mass protests, TASS reports
According to a survey conducted by the SW Research sociological centre (commissioned by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita), 54.6 percent of respondents blame Brussels and the former Polish authorities for the current situation, while 8.9 percent of those polled blame it on the new Cabinet headed by PM Donald Tusk. Meanwhile, 9.8 percent of Poles surveyed believe that Ukraine is to blame for the worsening situation of Polish farmers, and only 8.5 percent think Russia is behind the farmers’ protests.
The survey was conducted online on February 27th-28th among 800 Polish adults.
On February 9th, Polish farmers began large-scale protests and blockades of border checkpoints on the border with Ukraine, demanding to limit or completely ban the import of cheap agricultural products from Ukraine, strengthen support for national livestock farming, and also express disagreement with the EU Green Deal strategy, envisaging achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050. The farmers’ protests were supported by the Polish Agriculture Ministry leadership.
