Ukraine is at war with the EU, destroying the EU's agriculture, and Lithuanian politicians are helping Ukraine here: they call for speaking openly - Lithuanian farmers will have to share the pie with Ukraine, but it is important to remember what they get in return

  

 

 This is what the French elite said before the revolution: if the people don't have bread, let them eat cake.

 

     "On Friday, Polish farmers began to block the road between Kalvarija and the village of Budzisko in Suwalki County, Poland - during this action, they want to check the amount of transported Ukrainian grain.    

 

     Žygymantas Pavilionis, chairman of the Seimas Foreign Affairs Committee, is convinced that the task of politicians is to explain to farmers that they will have to share their pie with Ukraine, and that the entire agricultural policy will have to be rethought when Ukraine is admitted to the European Union.

 

     However, it is important to keep context in mind and what other scenarios would be possible.

 

     It encourages us to keep the overall context in mind

 

     "Support for you will decrease - you have to say it boldly. But think about what you get and buy for it. We have a safety buffer so that Russian tanks will not destroy your tractors here. Your children will not be taken to Siberia, your children will not be raped, and you will simply not be killed (Conservatives promise such a welfare state for Lithuania here (K.)). We will stay alive. Maybe we can pay for those three bottles of wine, donate one more tractor to the Ukrainians, so that we don't die - this is the price of any preparation in this sense, much lower than the cost of war, and there will be a war if Ukraine is defeated", - in the program "Business Approach" spoke Ž. Pavilionis.

 

     Vidmantas Janulevičius, president of the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists, explained that it is important to think not only about losses, but also about opportunities - and to think more broadly, not limited to one sector.

 

     "I would also like to say what kind of market is opening up for Western countries. To export, to build, to renovate, to rebuild after the conflict - here, too, there is such economic leverage," he noted.

 

     According to him, although it is very important to support and appreciate agriculture, it is necessary to be assured of food supply, to try to become one of the most productive agricultural countries in the world, but it is necessary to think about other sectors as well. "What about others? Should the factory machines be taken away and placed near the Seimas or somewhere else, for us as industrialists? We need to look for consensus and the fact that there are more opportunities than losses. And if we only look at one sector, we will always fight," said V. Janulevičius.

 

     There is a need to hurry up with the defense industry

 

     Regarding the defense industry, V. Janulevičius taught that industrialists are very limited by structural funds and it is necessary to be more active here. Also challenging is the complex legal regulation, which makes processes take too long.

 

     "We really need to invest as much as possible in local manufacturing so that, God forbid, if that potential collision happened on our border and not somewhere else, we would have many of the means of production right here with us so that we could respond very quickly so that we wouldn't be dependent on supply chains", he said.

 

     "Let's say with the same artillery shells. Today, four companies in Lithuania could produce them, two refused, because they are companies with foreign capital and simply produce products that could be easily changed in shape and produce projectiles. So I see a huge potential here and opportunities to collect as much tax as possible. It has been proven that the more you spend, the more you get back through taxes - you should not be afraid to spend money, of course, with care and proper investment. Now, the main prerogative of the state is to release money to the defense sector as soon as possible, so that it can be used and help us to feel a little safer," said V. Janulevičius. (I would also feel a little safer if one more of my Porsches was parked on the streets of Vilnius (K.)).

 

     He pointed out that while there are certain things we don't make, technology like airplanes or tanks, there are many additional things around the military, from clothing, ammunition, drones, anti-drones: "That lighter industry can be, but what the politicians have to do is to integrate the defense industry into that vertical of the big defense industry so that we are there."

 

     According to him, practically all business is covered by the defense tax, although they themselves will have to pay it both as business representatives and through VAT as consumers. "Again, the numbers show very simply - 75 percent. entrepreneurs would defend their homeland with a gun in their hands, when, by comparison, the vast majority is about 20 percent. Let's not push business against people," V. Janulevičius said."

 

You stole it, now you want to defend it against something. Paranoia of the rich. All of you should be imprisoned together with that idiot who stole 40 million euros from pension funds.