(ANSA-AFP) - DOROHUSK, NOV 6 - Several dozen owners of
transport companies on Monday blocked three major Polish border
crossings with Ukraine in protest at what they say is unfair
competition from the neighbouring country's businesses. Trucks
lined up at the border checkpoint in Dorohusk, with almost all
cargo traffic blocked by protesters who blamed the
liberalisation of European Union rules for the slump in their
revenues. "We want the rules of fair competition to be
restored," Rafal Mekler, a co-organiser of the protest, told AFP
in Dorohusk. Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
the EU waived a system of permits for Ukrainian transport
companies to enter the bloc. According to Polish companies, the
move triggered an influx of Ukrainian competitors into the
sector, plunging their profits. (ANSA-AFP).
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