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Bartosz Brzeziński

@thisisbartosz.bsky.social

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Senior reporter @politico.eu | Mostly writing about the politics of food and agriculture

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When your ban on veggie burger names and lab-grown steaks passes in the European Parliament — French MEP Céline Imart.

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

You heard it here first: Poland is poised to flip to the 'yay' camp on the hotly debated EU rules for gene-edited crops. Big shift ahead as Warsaw gears up to take over the presidency of the Council of the EU. Scoop via Politico 👉 pro.politico.eu/news/191093 (🔒 paywall) #NGTs #NewGenomicTechniques

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ukraine’s economic survival — and its ability to resist Russia’s war of aggression — depends on maintaining free trade with the European Union, Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval told POLITICO in an interview. pro.politico.eu/news/189620

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Polish government will say no to a free-trade agreement between the European Union and South America’s #Mercosur trade bloc, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. pro.politico.eu/news/190074

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“The blocking of the Ukrainian border by Polish farmers because of demands that have nothing to do with Ukraine looks like a particularly painful paradox on this sad day,” said the Ukrainian embassy to Poland in a statement. poland.mfa.gov.ua/pl/news/kome...

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The border protest coincidentally began on the day Ukraine commemorated the annual day of remembrance for the victims of the Holodomor, the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. 🧵

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

While buses and humanitarian convoys were allowed through, protesters inspected ambulances and vans, ostensibly to make sure they weren’t transporting nonessential goods. 🧵

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The farmers blocked a pedestrian crossing on the only road between the Polish town of Medyka and the village of Shehyni on the Ukrainian side, allowing no trucks to enter Poland from Ukraine and only one or two trucks an hour in the other direction. 🧵

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Farmers in southeastern Poland staged a new protest at the Ukrainian border on Saturday, using the blockade to pressure the Polish government for additional subsidies and tax breaks and to make it oppose the EU trade deal with … Latin American countries. #mercosur #warinukraine 🧵

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bulgaria’s government is sounding the alarm over an influx of cheap Ukrainian #honey that officials say is putting the country’s beekeeping industry at risk (€) ➡️ pro.politico.eu/news/189419

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Bartosz Brzeziński @thisisbartosz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Food fight 2.0? What Trump’s victory means for Europe’s agribusiness. European food producers fear they will once again be caught in the crossfire, as a wider EU-U.S. trade war looms under the incoming Trump administration. Me for Politico (€) ➡️ pro.politico.eu/news/189028

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