This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dec 1 (Reuters) - Slovak road hauliers started blocking the country’s main border crossing point with Ukraine on Friday, joining Polish protests in demanding that the European Union reintroduce a permit system for Ukrainian competitors.
Truckers from Poland and Slovakia both complain that their Ukrainian peers offer cheaper prices for their services and also transport goods within the EU, rather than just between the bloc and Ukraine.
They demand the EU reinstate a system of granting a limited number of permits to Ukrainian companies to operate in the bloc and for European truckers to enter Ukraine.
The truckers’ blockade at the sole border point for trucks entering Ukraine started at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) as planned, Slovak news agency TASR reported, citing several UNAS members.
Mykhailo Bno-Airiian, a trade reprensentative for Ukraine’s Federation of Employers, said the blockage of Slovakia’s crossing will leave only Hungary or Romania as options, greatly reducing trucking routes in what he called a “disaster”.
European transport commissioner Adina Valean said on Nov. 29 that Ukraine and the EU cannot be “taken hostage” by the Polish truckers blockading the border.
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Pretty much just assholes. The whole Europe is currently on a not-so-fun ride of populism and xenophobia. I guess that’s what we get for making fun of US because of Trump.
