Polish farmers block highway near Frankfurt (Oder)

Polish farmers blocked the highway to Germany near the border at Frankfurt (Oder) with tractors. In view of the protest action, there were no more cars on the German side on Sunday afternoon. "No vehicles are rolling across here," said a police spokesman in the early afternoon. This applies to both directions. Farmers in Poland began to turn around on the Autobahn 2 - the extension of the A12 on the Polish side - with a convoy at the Świecko border crossing and stop in the opposite direction.

Car and truck drivers must expect heavy traffic obstructions until Monday due to the planned protests. The police in Brandenburg called on hauliers in particular to avoid the highway if possible. Traffic will be diverted off the highway at the Frankfurt (Oder)-Mitte junction, the spokesman said. Drivers should take other routes. A protest meeting of German farmers is also planned for Sunday evening on the city bridge in Frankfurt (Oder).

The protests by Polish farmers, which have been going on for weeks, are directed against EU agricultural policy, but also against the import of cheap agricultural products from Ukraine. In Germany, farmers are mainly protesting against the planned cuts in subsidies for agricultural diesel.