Farmers’ Fury Drives Poland Into a Direct Showdown With Brussels Over Mercosur

This is about more than one trade deal. Poland’s warning cuts to the heart of a deeper European question: who really decides when Brussels pushes through an agreement that national governments and voters oppose? In this video, Michael Heaver looks at the clash between Poland’s eurosceptic president and Donald Tusk’s pro-EU government over the Mercosur deal. He explains how countries including Poland, France and Ireland opposed the agreement, yet still found themselves unable to block it. With Polish farmers fearing ruin, the president is now calling for legal action and arguing that food security is inseparable from sovereignty.