The Medyka-Shegini checkpoint on the border between Poland and Ukraine was abolished after six weeks. This was reported by a Polish TV channel. Polsat News.
The checkpoint was unblocked after local farmers signed an agreement with Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekierski. The authorities promised to fulfill all the demands of farmers: to provide subsidies to corn producers in the amount of 1 million zlotys (22.8 million rubles), to increase the amount of funds allocated for the provision of concessional loans to farmers by 2.5 billion zlotys (57 billion zlotys) and to increase the agricultural tax by 2023 level freezing.
The work of the checkpoint in Transcarpathian Medyka was suspended on November 24.
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