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A team comprised by several ministers will review the plans for the building of a wall along the Polish eastern border, thus avoiding the spreading of African swine fever (ASF), the Prime Minister, Mr Mateusz Morawiecki, said.
According to the plans of the government, the 1,200-km-long wall will be financed with budgeting funds and will have estimated cost of some 235 million zlotys (€54.7 million), and it will be ready by the end of 2020 despite the recent disagreement of the Prime Minister's cabinet.
In April, this idea was criticised by the Minister of the Environment of Poland, Mr Henryk Kowalczyk, who confirmed that the building of the wall has no sense at present, because ASF had already reached the centre of Poland. Mr Kowalczyk also emphasised that it would have been more relevant to consider such plans several years ago, when there were only a few areas with infected pigs near the Polish eastern border that could have been easily contained.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018. /Samorządowy website/ TVN24Bis/ Poland. http://www.portalsamorzadowy.pl
