(10 May 2024)
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Warsaw, Poland - 10 May 2024
1. Various of protesters walking with Polish flags and Solidarity, a farmers' trade union, flags
2. Protester blowing horn
3. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Grazyna Gasowska, farmer from Podlasie:
"I have a dairy farm, I am a farmer. We are striking so that we are not slaves, so that farmers are not slaves on their own land. We must adapt to the Green Deal. This is slavery. According to the Green Deal, we must cultivate what they tell us, when they tell us, (it tells us) how we should cultivate the land, how we should dispose of manure, how we should dispose of slurry (a mixture of manure and water)."
4. Protesters holding a Solidarity trade union banner
5. Protesters with a giant effigy symbolising death in front of the Warsaw office of the European Parliament building
6. Various of protest
7. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Bogdan Zielinski, protester from the city of Zyrardow:
"These people simply do not respect people, workers, citizens. That's why we came, to fight simply against this (Prime Minister Donald) Tusk regime and this whole bunch."
8. Various of protesters holding flags and marching
9. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Andrzej Krawczyk, protester from the city of Jelenia Gora:
"There are still Poles who care (to see) that Poland is not destroyed, that it remains sovereign, independent and strong. And that's what I'm here for, among other things."
10. Protester holing poster with caricature of European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
11. Various of protesters holding flags and marching
12. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Bozena Debska Stewart, protester from Gdansk:
"I would also like for not only the Poles, but also the whole of Europe to finally wake up and start doing something about it, so that they do not take away our freedoms, do not dictate to us how to live, so that democracy would reign in our country, in Poland and in Europe after all - and not some dictates from some commissioners elected by no one knows whom."
13. Protester beating drum
14. Various of protesters holding flags
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of disgruntled Polish farmers marched through downtown Warsaw on Friday to protest the European Union’s climate policies and oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The march under the slogan “Down with the Green Deal” was organised by Solidarity, a farmers' trade union that is strongly opposed to the EU’s farming policies, in particular a policy known as the Green Deal which aims to make agriculture more climate friendly.
The farmers say it interferes with their work and imposes high costs on them.
"We are protesting because we don’t want to become slaves on our own land," said dairy farmer Grazyna Gasowska from eastern Poland.
"According to the Green Deal, we must cultivate what they tell us, when they tell us," Gasowska said as she held a national white-and-red flag.
The noisy march stopped at the EU Warsaw office and then at parliament.
"Let Brussels eat worms, we prefer pork chops and potatoes," said one banner, referring to a general belief that the EU will advise eating insects and worms rather than cattle meat.
The demonstration came as Poland’s political parties campaign ahead of elections next month for the European Parliament.
The protest was supported by Polish right-wing opposition party Law and Justice, which held power from 2015 until late last year and is looking to regain political momentum.
Bogdan Zielinski, who took part in the demonstration, said he opposes the polices of Tusk’s government.
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