Thousands of farmers protest in Warsaw over EU’s environmental policies

Thousands of farmers protest in Warsaw over EU’s environmental policies
Thousands of Polish farmers, with national flags and angry slogans written on boards, protested against EU green policies (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Thousands of farmers marched in Poland’s capital on Tuesday to protest over European Union agricultural policies and imports of cheap food from neighbouring Ukraine, part of weeks of similar protests across Europe.

Demonstrators want the Polish government to withdraw from the EU’s Green Deal, a plan meant to fight climate change and help the environment with measures they say are too costly.

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