In an escalation of their ongoing grievances, farmers from the Polish Farmers’ Union, Orka, staged a sit-in protest at the lower house of parliament Sejm on Thursday, claiming that their livelihoods are threatened on two fronts. “Today we want to protest against the Green Deal, against the opening of the border to products flowing into the country from Ukraine,” a union spokesperson said during a press conference. “We are not thugs or hooligans. We want to protest in a cultural way, to manifest the problems we have in agriculture.” Protesters are demanding a meeting with Polish Prime Minister …