{"id":189375,"date":"2023-11-30T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189375"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:49:07","slug":"eu-border-chaos-as-blockade-sees-huge-truck-convoy-queuing-to-enter-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/eu-border-chaos-as-blockade-sees-huge-truck-convoy-queuing-to-enter-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"EU border chaos as blockade sees huge truck convoy queuing to enter Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorries stuck in queues at Poland-Ukraine border<\/h3>\n

More than 3,000 Ukrainian lorries are stuck at the country\u2019s border with Poland as a result of a blockade by Polish truckers. And the European Union has launched a scathing attack on Warsaw\u2019s failure to resolve the increasingly bitter dispute.<\/p>\n

Waiting times at the Dorohusk border checkpoint are now as long as three weeks, and at least one driver has already died in his vehicle. Pictures showed protesters camped out while drivers in hi-visibility vessels stand by their vehicles in freezing conditions.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Deputy Infrastructure Minister Serhiy Derkach told Politico: \u201cDrivers are forced to wait in an open field with no proper food supplies and no proper restrooms.\u201d The Ukrainian government was preparing to evacuate the drivers, he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Derkach continued: \u201cWe offered Polish truckers to open more checkpoints and create special road lines for the empty Polish trucks. But they do not want to register in an electronic queue system like everyone else. It would be unfair to other countries if we offer a special treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping trade moving across the border is critical for the Ukrainian economy, 21 months after Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale invasion. However, Polish truckers are angry at what they see as Ukrainian drivers undercutting their business.<\/p>\n

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Polish farmers, who claim cheap Ukrainian grain imports are dragging down domestic prices, have also joined the protest.<\/p>\n

Adina Valean, the European Commissioner for Transport, criticised what she called a \u201ccomplete lack of involvement\u201d by the Polish authorities.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Brussels, she said: “The Polish authorities are the ones who are supposed to enforce the law at that border. While I support the right of people to protest, the entire EU – not to mention Ukraine, a country currently at war – cannot be taken hostage by blocking our external borders. It\u2019s as simple as that.”<\/p>\n

Failure to act could result in Poland being hit by an infringement for “not respecting the rules or not applying the law\u201d, she warned.<\/p>\n

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