The meetings with Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Kęstutis Navickas and Germany's Cem Özdemir, who is visiting Warsaw, aim to explore solutions to massive farmers' protests across Europe.
The talks come ahead of a planned protest by farmers from northeastern Poland at the Polish-Lithuanian border in Budzisko, starting Friday and set to run until March 7.
The protest's primary objective is to advocate for tighter controls on the transport of Ukrainian grain through Lithuania to Poland, with Polish farmers urging Lithuania to adopt similar grain transit regulations and ban Ukrainian grain imports.
The protests prompted a special agricultural summit in Warsaw on Thursday, where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with protesting farmers.
Tusk assured protesters that his government would "take all necessary measures to safeguard Polish agriculture," including lobbying in Brussels for changes to the EU's Green Deal plan and imposing an embargo on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products.
A follow-up meeting has also been announced.
These developments come as farmers across the European Union, including Poland, organize protests to demand the abolition of Green Deal regulations, stricter border controls to prevent the entry of agri-food products from non-EU countries, and the protection of animal husbandry within Poland.
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Source: PAP