(some media material for Russian speakers)Armageddon Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The ’ across the Union these past several weeks were followed with great interest in Russia and Belarus by local medi…

Michael Howie February 21, 2024. Hundreds of drove their tractors into central Madrid on Wednesday as part of ongoing against Union and local farming policies and to …

A woman holds a loaf of bread during a ‘ in front of the Representative Office of the Commission in Bucharest, Romania, on, April 7, 2023. … Like many in Eastern …

1 October 2019. Dutch clogged up more than 1,000km of roads with their tractors. Tractor-driving taking to the streets to demand greater recognition caused the worst ever Dutch …

[1/7] A French of the Coordination Rural (CR) uses its tractor during a go-slow operation as ahead of the opening of the Paris farm show, in Paris, France, February 23, 2024.

The Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate crisis and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc after from and opposition from the biggest …

outside Parliament over post-Brexit trade deals. Tractor -riding have descended on Westminster to against trading arrangments they claim will “decimate” British …

’s are holding mass against EU measures and rising prices which they say are causing more red tape and debt. Tractors have been on the march in France, Germany, Italy …

News. in Germany have been protesting for weeks against planned subsidy cuts by the federal government, saying that the move would bring them in financial trouble. The movement …

The EU flag burns as Polish over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across and against the import of agricultural produce and food …

The Dutch started with an initial bout of demonstrations in the Netherlands on October 1, 2019 in response to new carbon emissions reduction legislation that disproportionately impacted . Then, on June 10 of this year, the Dutch government unveiled more extreme measures targeted directly at the agricultural industry.

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‘ have mounted across the Union to press leaders to do more to help them with taxes and rising costs, among other grievances including over cheap imports and bureaucracy, reported Reuters. Here are some of the issues that have prompted the movement across the bloc and in individual countries.

For months now French have been demonstrating over their working conditions, but have escalated in recent weeks at the same time as they spread across , with similar actions …

A demonstrator throws a tyre over a barricade next to police officers in riot gear as he is sprayed with water amid smoke, during a by from Belgium and other countries …

Against Policy Changes. By Stephanie Mercier May 1, 2024. In February 2023, I wrote a blog which described the sixty-year history of the Union’s Common …

The Commission on Friday proposed further concessions on climate and environmental measures in response to ongoing in several countries. across the bloc …

Although the follow other demonstrations by in countries including Germany and Romania, the French have a particularly urgent and local political flavour.

MADRID -. 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 …

are angry over Union climate policies and food imports from Ukraine that they say threaten their livelihoods. Such have occurred across the 27-member EU in recent weeks …

February 26, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch. in Saint-Etienne-de-Fontbellon, France. have been raging across since December 2023. Photo: Wikimedia. and their unions in Eastern and Central , are mobilizing in large numbers against growing economic distress. They have expressed their rejection of provisions …

German drive thousands of tractors into Berlin in a against fuel subsidy cuts. A sign with writing reading in German ‘We take care of your food’ hangs on a tractor during a …

Watch as protested in their tractors against EU policies at a demonstration in Brussels on Monday, 26 February, as EU agriculture ministers met to discuss responses to the current crisis …

Poland, a member of NATO and the Union located along Ukraine’s western border, has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 …

Angry block roads and walk cattle through busy streets as -wide spread – are being held in Ireland, Greece, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Belgium and Holland

The latest comes three weeks after lifted roadblocks around Paris and elsewhere in the country after the government offered over €400 million ($433 million) to address their …

in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and other countries across are protesting radical leftist governments by obstructing major transport networks with tractors. This widespread populist movement is sweeping at a time when over-regulation, taxes, and the climate change agenda threaten the livelihoods of not just but working-class people …

’ , which have spread across , come as the far right, for which represent a growing constituency, is predicted to make gains in June’s parliament elections.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday proposed withdrawing the EU’s plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a “symbol of polarisation” as regional protested …

gather with their vehicles next to a Germany/Netherlands border sign on the A1 highway, near Rijssen, on June 29 2022 during a against the Dutch government’s nitrogen plans …

The large increase in imports has exacerbated ’ over soaring costs and regulation. Poland, Hungary and Slovakia maintain unilateral bans introduced last year in violation of EU …

New ’ brought traffic to a standstill on several motorways around the country on Monday, despite police warnings not to break the law. Around 15 tractors blocked the A2 at Best, in the direction of Den Bosch, by laying hay bales across the carriageway. Similar blockades were set up on the A67 at Liessel, between Eindhoven and Venlo, and on the A28 between Hoogeveen and Assen …

There have also been solidarity rallies by in Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Canada. Consequently, the are shaping the political discourse in several countries across . Forecast Negotiations between ’ groups and the Dutch government are stalled. So, it is likely that the will continue.

are protesting all over and they are threatening to come to the UK too. Reuters. The Welsh Government’s own economic assessment of the plan shows that they could result in the loss of over 120,000 livestock units, £200million from farm business income and a brutal 5,500 job losses. The deputy president of NFU Cymru said the …

Agrarian showered police with liquid manure and eggs outside Union headquarters in Brussels last week. taking grievances to the streets is nothing new, or …

The ’ , the far right and the fallout. Isabel Schatzschneider 15th February 2024. The Union must stop giving ground on its climate vows—unless it wants to help the far right ride to victory. Social substance but authoritarian style—the scene in Luxembourg Square in Brussels during a Council meeting at the …

Here’s where and why. on February 13, 2024. The sweeping the Union may have taken political leaders by surprise. But the tinder was dry and all it took was a spark for unrest to spread like wildfire, as Hanne Cokelaere and Bartosz Brezezinski report in this Politico news story. are being burdened by debt …

February 6, 2024 01:27:35 pm. Dutch police stopped ’ across the Netherlands on Monday regarding low prices for produce and the EU’s Green Deal. The disrupted traffic by blocking freeway exit roads and setting fires. In a statement released on Monday, the police in Gelderland highlighted the health risks and …

[1/5] Tractors block a highway as French over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Chamant, near Paris, France, January 26, 2024.

A fake image showing tractors and hay bales near the Eiffel Tower. Photos of in France staging in Paris have gone viral recently. But one of the photos being shared that appears …