According to information from the Slovak Border Guards, starting at 15 o'clock local time on December 1, representatives of the Slovak Road Transport Union took ** action to prevent trucks from Ukraine from passing through the Vischne-Nematské checkpoint. The checkpoint is close to the Uzgorod checkpoint in Ukraine.
Screenshot of the report of the Ukrainian News Agency.
According to reports, it is not yet clear when the operation will end. ** criticized the EU for allowing Ukrainian trucks to enter the EU without obtaining a transport permit, which would lead to the collapse of the transport market in Slovakia, demanding an immediate end to the special treatment granted to Ukraine by the EU.
But representatives of the transport alliance said that humanitarian aid and the transport of vital goods, fuel, refrigerated goods and live animals will not be blocked, and that other goods will be allowed to leave Slovakia in limited quantities, with four trucks per hour released.
Screenshot of a Yahoo News report.
Previously, hundreds of Polish truck drivers blocked the main border crossings on the Polish-Ukrainian border, and the special treatment given by the European Union to Ukrainian transport companies led to a large influx of competitors from Ukraine, which damaged the interests of the Polish transport industry, and Poland did nothing about it.
On December 1, local time, Ukrainian truck drivers waiting to cross the border at the "Krakovets-Kolčova" checkpoint in Poland once announced a hunger strike.
The drivers said they wanted to negotiate with Polish **, but were stopped by the Polish police. Currently, Ukrainian vans with fuel and flammable cargo are not allowed to pass through checkpoints, but there are more than 1,200 trucks in the queue.
According to Ukrainska Pravda 1**, after the coordination of the local consul, the Ukrainian truck drivers reached an agreement with the Polish **, agreeing to allow seven trucks per hour to pass through the checkpoint, and humanitarian and military cargo will pass on priority. Ukrainian drivers then decided to cancel their hunger strike**, but they are ready to resume the hunger strike** if the Polish side violates the agreement by December 3.
Screenshot of the Ukrainska Pravda ** report.
Zhang Hong, a researcher at the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out in an interview with ** Radio and Television Global News Broadcasting that one of the reasons for the tension between some EU member states and Ukraine is the "partiality" of the EU in the process of aiding Ukraine.
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the European Union exempted Ukrainian truck companies from the restriction on applying for EU transport licenses, so that a large number of Ukrainian trucks can enter the EU market for operation without applying for a license.
Since the operating costs of Ukrainian trucking companies are much lower than those of the European Union, EU transport companies are completely unable to compete with Ukraine in the trucking business, which has led to the bankruptcy of a large number of trucking companies in eastern and central European countries. They complained to the EU, but did not receive a positive response from the EU.
This has not only led to truck drivers in Eastern European countries taking to the streets** and blocking ports, but also to diplomatic tensions between Ukraine and the countries concerned. This reflects the fact that the EU's assistance to Ukraine is to a certain extent at the expense of the interests of Eastern and Central European countries. Failure to balance these interests will lead to a decline in the EU's overall support for Ukraine.
Zhang Hong believes that since the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, differences and contradictions within the EU on various issues related to Ukraine have increased day by day, and it has become increasingly difficult for the EU to reach consensus on relevant matters.
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the countries of Eastern and Central Europe were originally the most staunch supporters of Ukraine. However, some economic assistance and some facilitation measures given by the EU to Ukraine have led to a large number of Ukrainian products entering the EU market. Eastern and Central European countries have great similarities in terms of economic structure and product structure, in the past there were restrictions on quota licenses, but after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the EU lifted these restrictions, and a large number of Ukrainian products and services hit the employment and market of Eastern and Central European countries, which led to the internal contradictions of the EU began to complicate.
The EU's support for Ukraine has caused economic losses to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, and this loss is expanding into political pressure, and even affecting the future political stability of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe.
Material**丨Global Information Broadcasting "Live World".
Reporter of the main station丨Wo Long Yang Zhuoying.
Editor丨Yang Nan and Wang Hongling.
Signing and review丨Cai Yaoyuan, Hou Chen.