Tractors are reflected on a wing mirror as French try to reach Paris during a over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in …

Jeroen van Maanen, an organic with 130 cows, who helped organise the Stroe , said nitrogen has become more than a gas. It has overtaken every other agricultural problem. law demands that protect vulnerable natural areas, by improving ground water quality and soil quality, and through careful land management.

As a few blocks away, the Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, addressed their challenges in a press conference following today’s summit.

in Italy, Spain and Poland demonstrated Friday as part of ongoing against Union farming policies and to demand measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced profits …

The ongoing in the Netherlands, by opposed to their government’s plan to slash nitrogen oxide emissions by 50 per cent by 2030, have drawn attention to Canadian …

Hundreds of from across Central and Eastern staged a in Brussels on Thursday, calling for “equal pay for equal work.”. Protesting against the backdrop of Thursday’s EU summit, the called on EU leaders to “keep their promise and give equal pay for equal work.”. The say they were promised equal EU …

‘ in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin,January 10, 2024 [Photo by Stefan Müller / flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0]. The ’ are part of a social uprising against the …

The last few weeks of January 2024 saw French parking tractors across highways near Paris. They dumped manure, let the produce rot in front of govern…

Besides Belgium, have staged week-long in France, Italy, Germany and Poland. block roads in Brussels in (Photo: AFP) On Wednesday, more than 90 were taken into custody as they protested outside a food market in Paris. Also, this week, key roads in the French capital were blocked by agitating .

French are blocking roads across the country to demand government action to address numerous grievances, as in the Union’s agricultural sector spread. Here are some of the issues that have prompted the growing movement and how the government could respond.

drive their tractors to reach Rome as they over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Vetralla, near Rome, Italy, February 5 …

A major Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed. … pitchfork and broom is seen during a in …

Romanian in their tractors Friday, April 7. (Inquam Photos/Cornel Putan/Reuters) in central and eastern protested this week against the impact of cheap Ukrainian …

Thousands of in Spain staged a second day of tractor demonstrations across the country on Wednesday. Mirroring across , the are demanding changes in EU farming …

livid. The action is the most recent agricultural in the EU, but not the largest or the most controversial. The farming first started in Berlin late last year …

Flemish local transport company De Lijn warns that the are leading to delays on its services. Desperation is great. Lode Ceyssens of the ’ Union explains desperation is fuelling the and many are eager to take part: “Our are being swamped by a tsunami of rules”.

An opinion poll last week showed 90% of French citizens back their , which started in the south of France on Jan. 18. Some of the protesting tell NPR they are barely earning 1,200 …

As thousands of across against low prices, cheap imports and new environmental regulations, Morgan Ody, a and coordinator of La Via Campesina, joins CNN’s Amara …

France ‘ block a highway during a demonstration Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024 near Beauvais, northern France. have for months been protesting for better pay and against …

Updated 5:55 AM PDT, May 10, 2024. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of disgruntled Polish marched through downtown Warsaw on Friday to the Union’s climate policies and oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The prompted the government to distribute an additional 269 million euros ($290 million) in subsidies for as many as 140,000 and for the Commission, the EU executive, to …

Spanish in Madrid despite EU concessions 03/17/2024 March 17, 2024. … “We are being suffocated by rules,” the from Pozo de Guadalajara, 50 kilometers (30 miles …

Dutch over government policies and rising “agflation” destroying their businesses have spread to more countries. The are protesting about rising costs and …

For months, flew the Dutch tricolor upside down to government plans to cut nitrogen emissions in half by 2030 by reducing the number of livestock in the country by a third. The …

Protesting blockaded roads and camped outside the parliament building in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of a EU leaders’ summit in the Belgian …

The agri-discontent sweeping across the Union is a complex issue, influenced by various national and -wide factors. In eastern- countries the are linked to the liberalisation of imports of Ukrainian grain; in Germany, France and Greece to cuts in diesel subsidies.

Christophe Ena/AP. PARIS — France’s two major unions announced Thursday their decision to suspend and lift road blockades across the country, in a dramatic development shortly …

February 19, 2024 3:10 pm CET. By Šejla Ahmatović. Hundreds of Czech descended on Prague Monday to high energy costs, cheap goods from Ukraine and the EU’s Green Deal. The , who intend to disrupt traffic and cause blockades, plan to deliver a list of demands to Czech Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný.

The -driven in Germany echo those that rocked Dutch politics last year and helped lead to the victory of far-right politician Geert Wilders in parliamentary elections in November. C ourthouse News reporter Cain Burdeau is based in the Union.

Feb. 5, 2024, at 11:44 a.m. Bulgaria’s Are Joining -Wide . More. Valentina Petrova. Bulgarian family hold posters reading: “We want humane treatment of .” “I …

Jan. 31, 2024 9 AM PT. PARIS —. have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay …

Item 1 of 5 Belgian use their tractors to block the Brussels ring as they over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Halle …

France’s follow similar action in other countries, including Germany and Poland, six months ahead of elections in which the far right – for whom represent a …

also fear that the changes will let corporations manipulate prices by hoarding crops, and take advantage of weak enforcement capacity to negotiate pro-corporate contract-farming arrangements. also criticize the decision-making process, noting insufficient parliamentary debate and deliberation.

Last modified on Mon 26 Feb 2024 10.44 EST. have clashed violently with police in the quarter of Brussels, spraying officers with liquid manure and setting fire to mounds of tyres …

Following across in recent months, including in Ireland, the EU has moved to reduce some of the administrative burden on . At a meeting of the EU Council of …

marched in the streets of Milan and Rome in Italy. Last year, German and Polish protested, and Spanish have pledged to add their voices to the mix starting in February. Sporting signs with slogans such as: “Minister for awhile, for Life” these are at their limit with the Union bureaucrats.

dumped tires on the streets of Brussels before setting them on fire on Monday, as they protested against competition from cheap food imports…

Item 1 of 4 gesture towards police officers at the site of a as they march towards New Delhi to press for better crop prices, at Shambhu barrier, a border crossing between Punjab …

Hundreds of Hungarian converged in their tractors on the main border-crossing with Ukraine at Zahony, on Friday, joining the -wide for the first time.. Organisers said they …