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Kazys Starkevičius, newly appointed agriculture minister, could improve the ministry’s dialogue with farmers, cut red tape and set up measures to mitigate market volatility, a chief presidential adviser says.

According to the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Polish farmers’ protest has ended at the Budzisko-Kalvarija border checkpoint, at the border with Lithuania.

Checks at Lithuanian-Polish border crossing initiated by Polish farmers have found many processed products of unknown origin crossing the border, while lorries are carrying small quantities of Ukrainian grain, organisers say.

On Friday, 1 March, Polish farmers started a protest campaign at the Polish-Lithuanian border on the main motorway between the two countries. Polish farmers are protesting and voicing their discontent about the European Green Deal and import of cheap Ukrainian grain to Poland. Lithuania’s Police Com...

Polish farmers, discontent over the European Green Deal and cheap Ukrainian grain imports, on Friday started a partial blockade of a motorway between Budzisko village in Poland and Kalvarija city in Lithuania. Polish farmers’ protest campaign is expected to last for a week and they intend to check h...

The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) will allocate additional personnel to ensure public order at the border during the protest of Polish farmers, who plan to start a blockade of a motorway connecting Poland and Lithuania on Friday.

Lithuanian farmers held protests in January over the situation in the agricultural sector. At first, they burned bonfires on their land and later travelled in their tractors to protest in the capital Vilnius. The Government promised to solve a number of issues in agriculture, but now farmers may sta...

Coalition lawmakers may call an extraordinary session of the Seimas in February. Parliament is in recess from 24 December 2023 until 10 March 2024.

Farmers in their tractors are gradually leaving Vilnius on Friday as their protest has come to an end. The vehicles have already left Gediminas Avenue escorted by the police in the city, organisers say.

On Thursday, farmers protesting in Vilnius over agricultural policies met with the prime minister. Their protest, which has lasted for three days, is due to end on Thursday at 4 p.m.

The organiser of the farmers’ protest says Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen has pledged an urgent procedure to address part of farmers’ demands in the parliamentary spring session.

President Gitanas Nausėda has delegated his chief adviser, Jarek Niewierowicz, to meet with protesting farmers due to his own busy agenda including meetings outside Vilnius.

On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas spoke to farmers who were holding a three-day protest in Vilnius and arrived at the capital with their tractors a day earlier.

Farmers on Wednesday started their rally outside the Government in protest against the recent agricultural policy after driving their tractors to Vilnius centre from across the country a day earlier.

A number of protesting farmers lined their tractors up on Vilnius Gediminas Avenue on Tuesday morning in protest against the long-standing problems of the sector that are not being addressed as they say.

Farmers on Tuesday are set to gather in Vilnius for a days-long protest campaign. Protesters are bringing their agricultural machinery and will hold a rally outside the Government on Wednesday, said the Lithuanian Agriculture Council, the organizer.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis agreed that direct EU payments to farmers should be capped at 100,000 euros.

Direct EU payments to Lithuanian farmers in 2021-2027 should be capped at 100,000 euros, Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis says, adding that they will be 50,000 lower compared to the existing financial perspective.

Several dozen farmers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia staged a protest in Brussels on Thursday to press their demand for higher EU direct payments.

Lithuanian farmers will hold a protest in Brussels on Thursday to express their dissatisfaction with small direct payments that are over 80 euros below the EU average.