The European Commission is responsible for the uncontrolled flow of agricultural products from Ukraine into Poland and the European market, as well as for the provisions of the Green Deal, which have caused protests from farmers throughout Europe and which need to be revised in order to support farmers, Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski said.

"We need to understand the farmers' protests, and I will endeavor to do this at tomorrow's [February 26] meeting of the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels," posted the Polish Agriculture Ministry's website quoting comments by Siekierski.

Siekierski said he was convinced the European Union needed a new approach to cooperation with Ukraine, among other things slow the widespread liberalization of trade with this country as a matter of urgency.

Siekierski said he also intended at the meeting to demand limitations on the Green Deal and a delay in the implementation of a number of its provisions.

He also said he hoped EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's talks in Warsaw and Kyiv would give her a better understanding of the problems faced by farmers.

He said he was holding talks with the agriculture ministers of other countries. Recently, talks were held with his counterparts from Ukraine, France and Belgium, and the German agriculture minister will be in Warsaw on March 1.

Siekierski said after talking to farmers protesting at the border that it was dangerous to politicize these protests.

"This is not good for farmers. I urge them to make their public protest as easy to bear as possible, otherwise public support for the protests will lessen," he said.