WARSAW (Reuters) – The governments of Poland and Ukraine meet in Warsaw on Thursday for talks they hope will help defuse a row over grain imports that has caused mass protests by farmers, but a top Polish official said a breakthrough was unlikely.
Farmers in Poland and elsewhere in the European Union havebeen protesting to demand the re-imposition of customs duties onagricultural imports from Ukraine that were waived after Russia’s invasion in 2022.
They say Ukraine’s farmers are flooding Europe with cheapimports that leave them unable to compete.
“It is difficult to expect any breakthrough after these talks, any specific agreement, for example on agricultural issues,” the head of the prime minister’s office Jan Grabiec told state news agency PAP. “We are still in dialogue and both sides – at least for today – are not fully satisfied.”
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