European Public Opinion Three Decades After the Fall of Communism. 1. since the fall of communism. By Richard Wike, Jacob Poushter, Laura Silver, Kat Devlin, Janell Fetterolf, Alexandra Castillo and Christine Huang. When asked about changes that have taken place since the end of the communist era, people across …

How much social work can a bear? If after mowing the grass a thundercloud appears and the dry hay has to be brought to the barn quickly, a conflict between social and farming needs appears. Also there is a lack of professional and interdisciplinary education: need pedagogical skills, and social workers lack ’ knowledge.

‘ protest in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin,January 10, 2024 [Photo by Stefan Müller / flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0]. The ’ protests are part of a social uprising against the government (a coalition of the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the Free Democratic Party) embracing broad sections of the working class, as well as layers of the middle class.

March 3, 2023 5:40 pm CET. By Susannah Savage. Convoys of tractors brought traffic in Brussels to a standstill Friday, as thousands of Belgian protested the Flemish regional government’s plans to limit nitrogen emissions from agriculture. Some 2,700 tractors rolled into Brussels from the Flanders region, according to police estimates …

Kent County farmers tune in to farm radio for accurate crop prices and climate alerts.

The follow similar action in other countries, including Germany and Poland, ahead of Parliament elections in June in which the far right, for whom represent a …

At a recent policy seminar, 21st Century Agricultural Policies: The 2013 CAP and 2014 US Bill, a panel of experts outlined the respective agricultural policies of the and US. Jean-Christophe Bureau from AgroParis Tech began with a presentation of the 2014 CAP reform from the member states.

First introduced in in 1962, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a common policy for all countries. It is regularly updated to ensure can make a reasonable living, consumers can rely on safe food supplies and to tackle evolving threats to agriculture and rural living, such as climate change.

Protests in Belgium. “Around 200 gathered in central Brussels on Wednesday, saying they can no longer cope with regulations and tumbling earnings, according to Le Soit newspaper,” Horobin and Seputyte reported. “Smaller family are behind many of the protests across the bloc,” Corbet and Casert wrote. “They complain …

Czech walk by tractors at the Hodonín/Holíč, Czech-Slovakia border crossing, in Czech Republic, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Czech were driving their tractors and other vehicles to the country’s borders on Thursday to meet their colleagues from neighboring countries and join forces in their protests against agriculture policies, bureaucracy and overall …

Jonathan Harwood Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine University of Manchester (UK) (prepared for the colloquium of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, 9 October 2009) This paper emerges from a book I am writing entitled ‘’s Green Revolution: the Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890 …

The ’S to Fork plan. The ’s to Fork strategy, often described as the heart of the European Green Deal, was adopted in 2020 and strengthened in October 2021. It sets …

These were the first , people who spoke unknown languages (of which Basque could be a relic), used stone tools and, about 9,000 years ago, headed for in search of new land to cultivate.

European across France and Germany stage widespread protests, citing grievances over economic hardships, policy changes, and competition. In France, …

On the Dutch-Belgian border and on roads in Greece, blocked roads. In Poland, plans were hatched to shut border crossings with Ukraine as over costs and bureaucracy …

arrive on tractors to agricultural policy in Madrid, Spain on February 21, 2024. Photography by Oscar Gonzalez Fuentes/Shutterstock Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know …

In 20211, the average income per worker in the , as reported by FADN, amounted to EUR 28 8002. This figure reflects a continuous increase over the past decade, with a slowdown observed in 2020 [Graph 1] during the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to 2013, the income per worker was 56% higher in 2021, far outpacing inflation during the …

Spanish and cooperatives organisations demand guarantees for “reciprocity” and a level playing field between the and Mercosur. A FREE TRADE ZONE However, in terms of trade advantages, the agreement is an attractive one. The deal will remove tariffs for 99% of agricultural trade, open markets for 88% of agricultural

Human ways of life were fundamentally altered. 2. The Industrial Revolution created new classes of people in society. 3. It created new work patterns. 4. It enormously increased the output of goods services because of a completely unprecedented jump in the capacities of human societies to produce wealth.

Spain’s are at the heart of what is known as ‘Emptied Spain’, the large swathes of the countryside suffering depopulation and with it inadequate services. -wide agriculture generates a mere 1.4% of the bloc’s GDP, provides 4.2% of employment and receives around a whopping 30% of the budget.

With this support and €307 billion in funding from 2023 to 2027, will keep delivering quality, safe and nutritious food to all of us. The medium-term outlook report covers the period until 2035 and looks at production, consumption and trade in the arable crop, dairy, meat, olive oil and wine sectors, in addition to agricultural income.

Trying to shift the centre-right and far-right electoral narrative on agriculture, which have capitalised on the ’ protest to target the ’s Green Deal, the Socialists state that “we …

When French blocked the roads in northwest Brittany and Normandy last week, the administration of President François Hollande quickly gave into their demands, canceling around €100 million in taxes and allowing them to defer another €500 million for three to four months.

In the , the main policy of interest is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which distributes around one third of the entire budget as subsidies to across the Union. The CAP is currently under review, and the way this support will be distributed under the new policy will be decisive for what types of farming practices will …

The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, [3] was a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc other parts of the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Nations, [4] [5] [6 …

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal speaks at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 2024. Yet there is no sign of the protest movement fading. in Brittany dumped 700 tons of …

On Tuesday, blocked roads around the Belgian port of Antwerp, the second-largest , most of the day. The disruption followed earlier at the port, 60 kilometers (40 miles …

February 8, 2024 at 3:40 AM PST. Listen. 5:19. A long-brewing crisis agriculture has burst into the open as block roads and key border crossings and dump manure in front of …

Capitalism is based on individual initiative and favors market mechanisms over government intervention. is based on government planning and limitations on private control of resources …

can have more flexibility in how they fulfil this conditionality. Clarification to be presented and discussed with Member States in March. Revising the methodology to assess the quality of the Area Monitoring System. will receive up to 50% fewer on- visits; this will also free up resources in national administrations

01 Feb 2024 05:27PM (Updated: 01 Feb 2024 07:38PM) BRUSSELS: threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament on Thursday (Feb 1), starting fires near the building and setting off …

The candidates vaguely agreed that needs in its efforts to protect the environment and biodiversity — and vice versa. However, the speakers were less clear on how might be brought on board with the Green Deal without diluting its ambitions. “The real problem of our is they don’t have a decent income …

The contingency plan for ensuring food supply and food security will ensure citizens have a sufficient, varied supply of food, even in times of crisis. Short-term outlook The spring 2024 edition of the short-term outlook report presents the latest trends and prospects for the agri-food markets.

A Brussels initiative to demand better environmental practices from landowners in exchange for billions of euros in agricultural subsidies has triggered a revolt by , who complain it would …

Colonial governments organised agricultural production in the colonies to match the demand for raw materials in . Imperial expansion of into the African interior saw many African forced off their land and turned into labourers on white-owned plantations, where they were usually subject to cruel exploitative practices.