Stung by images of grain mountains and wine lakes, Brussels encouraged to diversify and offer leisure facilities. But now, with commodity prices volatile, food security is a big issue …

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…

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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 …

Published 7:47 AM PDT, April 7, 2023. BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — in Romania and Bulgaria staged Friday to express their anger over the Union’s response to a glut of agricultural products from Ukraine that they say are flooding local markets and undercutting prices. About 100 converged in Romania’s capital …

Experts say the ongoing and escalating are part of a bigger problem . These ongoing and escalating are part of a bigger problem . In 2020, the EU approved the Green Deal, which is a set of policy initiatives that seeks to make the EU climate-neutral by 2050.

The vote was closely watched as it took place amid , who have made the Green Deal one of its main objects of criticism. Still, the law approved on Tuesday had been heavily …

Violent confrontations between and law enforcement officers have been reported in other countries, according to Reuters. Similar have popped up in other countries …

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The goals to reduce emissions has led to across , and in June 40,000 gathered in the Netherlands to the government’s plans. Given the potential impact this will have on Canada, the Canadian demonstrators hope to draw attention to the situation on Saturday.

Nov 16th 2023. By Alex Dziadosz. T he revolted on October 1st 2019. That day, a 15-year-old schoolboy named Björn Schütte was sitting in front of the TV at his home in Emmen, a small …

Published: February 12, 2024 11:15am EST. took various demands to Brussels on February 1, 2024, clogging the streets with 1,300 tractors as EU leaders met for a summit. On …

JOSSIGNY, France/BRUSSELS—French and Belgian angry about rising costs, EU environmental policies, and cheap food imports blocked highways and access roads to a major container port on Tuesday as the spread across . In France, , who have been protesting for over two weeks, stepped up their pressure on the government by blocking highways […]

Text size. The German government on Thursday dropped part of its plans to cut agricultural subsidies in the face of massive from . Contrary to the initial plans, a discount on the …

Jul 11, 2022 09:58 AM IST. While Ukraine war has hit the global energy security, the ongoing over emission cut proposals will have serious repercussions on food supply …

Australian observers warn there is a global cost to agricultural policy made in response to , as and India escalate their campaigns for better prices and fewer regulations.

in Brussels as EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss responses to the current crisis that the sector is facing.# # …

in Germany kicked off a week of Monday with widespread highway shutdowns and city center demonstrations, including near U.S. military communities, in opposition to the federal …

blocked key roads in and out of Paris on Friday. Earlier on Friday, the A1 motorway linking Paris the northern city of Lille and Belgium was blocked by tractors and hay bales. According to …

Item 1 of 5 German line up their tractors at the Strasse des 17. Juni in front of the Brandenburg Gate to prepare one day before a large against the cut of farm vehicle tax …

By Hans von der Burchard. BERLIN — Tensions over Germany’s budget crisis escalated significantly late Thursday as a group of angry protested against tax hikes by blocking Greens Economy Minister Robert Habeck from disembarking from a ferry as it docked in northern Germany. The mob of more than 100 people harangued Habeck in a scene …

Among the ’ complaints are the union’s green policies that they say impose excessive bureaucracy on to . EU policymakers adopted the law with 329 votes in favour, 275 against …

Last year, the -Citizen Movement, a populist party supporting , achieved a landslide victory in the country’s provincial elections The events must be viewed through an …