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Agriculture Minister Stefan Krajewski, reacting to the signing on Saturday by the EU of a trade agreement with Mercosur, reminded that next week the European Parliament is to vote on a complaint about the agreement to the CJEU. “We are not giving up,” he wrote on the X platform.
“Despite the mistakes of our predecessors, who agreed to the EU-Mercosur agreement, we are not giving up. This is not the end of the fight,” Krajewski wrote on Saturday.
As he recalled, next week a vote is to be held in the European Parliament on the complaint submitted by a group of MEPs from Poland about the agreement to the Court of Justice of the European Union. “I am counting on the unity of all Polish MEPs. We have ready legal scenarios (CJEU) and services in full readiness for inspections,” the agriculture minister emphasized. He added that the Polish government will do “everything to protect Polish farmers.”
He also appealed to the opposition and – as he put it – some “unions.” “Stop getting in the way. Put aside the principle ‘the worse, the better.’ Today the Polish countryside is more important than your poll numbers and private interests. There is no issue more important than Poland,” reads Krajewski’s post.
Earlier on Saturday in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion, the European Union, represented by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council Antonio Costa and the Commissioner for Trade Marosz Szefczovicz, officially signed a trade agreement with Mercosur. The agreement is intended to facilitate the flow of industrial and agricultural products between the European Union and the bloc of South American countries. On this occasion, Ursula von der Leyen emphasized that the agreement creates the largest free trade area in the world and a market worth almost 20 percent of global GDP; it also means, among other things, more business opportunities, the elimination of tariffs worth billions of euros and the opening of public procurement markets.
At the same time, she assured that the agreement contains “solid safeguards aimed at protecting your livelihoods and our sensitive agricultural sectors.”
At the beginning of January this year, the majority of member states agreed to sign the agreement; Poland, France, Austria, Ireland and Hungary were against.
On Wednesday, Minister Krajewski announced that the complaint against the agreement with Mercosur is being prepared and will be voted on in the European Parliament next week. He added that if the European Parliament does not approve the complaint submitted by the MEPs, Poland as a member state will prepare its own complaint to the Court. (17.01.2026)