The governments of Poland and Ukraine meet in Warsaw on Thursday for talks they hope will help defuse a row over grain imports that has caused mass protests by farmers, but a top Polish official said a breakthrough was unlikely.
\nFarmers in Poland and elsewhere in the European Union have been protesting to demand the re-imposition of customs duties on agricultural imports from Ukraine that were waived after Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022.
\nThey say Ukraine\u2019s farmers are flooding Europe with cheap imports that leave them unable to compete.
\n\u201cIt is difficult to expect any breakthrough after these talks, any specific agreement, for example on agricultural issues,\u201d the head of the prime minister\u2019s office Jan Grabiec told state news agency PAP. \u201cWe are still in dialogue and both sides \u2013 at least for today \u2013 are not fully satisfied.\u201d
\nPoland has been eyeing a licensing deal for agricultural trade with Ukraine similar to one agreed with Kyiv by Romania and Bulgaria.
\nOn Wednesday Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski said talks were ongoing about a system of licensing exports, but that there were differences over the range of products that would be covered.
\nGrabiec said almost the entire Ukrainian government would be represented at the talks, which Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna told public radio would also cover cooperation between the countries\u2019 arms industries, cultural issues and energy.
\nAmbassadors from European Union countries reached a revised deal on Wednesday to extend tariff-free food imports from Ukraine \u2013 with restrictions \u2013 after some states, including Poland, complained the original agreement risked destabilising the bloc\u2019s agricultural markets.
\nAn EU diplomat said the new deal \u2013 which would run until June 2025 \u2013 was similar to a provisional agreement struck last week but changed the reference period used to determine when tariffs on some products would be applied.
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