began protesting in in spring 2023 in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria, sparked by Ukrainian grain imports. argue that Ukrainian grain is a cheaper good that does not follow standards and therefore presents unfair competition in the market. Those initial protests began spreading to Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and …

In recent months, ‘ have swept across , culminating in a fiery standoff in Brussels amid last week’s EU summit. For many Europeans, it is still unclear when and where it all …

Fight Back Across . Story by Aleks Phillips• 2d. in countries across have continued to stage including blocking roads and toppling statues, after …

voters feel betrayed after financial crisis. VALENCIENNES, France, March 22 () – In France’s former mining heartland, promises by the Communist Party’s first presidential …

across are continuing to protest stiff regulations and what they say is unfair competition from Ukrainian agriculture. CNN’s Michael Holmes reports. 02:40 – Source: CNN.

complain that the 27-nation ‘s policies on the environment, such as the Green Deal, which calls for limits on the use of chemicals and on greenhouse gas emissions, limit their business …

Among longstanding member states, the decline in the number of small farms has been going on for decades. But eastern European have had even more upheaval since 2004, when many joined …

But support is declining as sanctions from Brussels intensify. Hungary joined the in 2004. The country remained a net recipient of structural assistance from then until 2022, when budget funds were withdrawn by Brussels over rule-of-law issues. In 2021, the country contributed 1.7 billion euros to the budget while receiving …

Coming to a crescendo over the past few months, widespread ’ protests in have escalated – across the width and breadth of the continent, from Sweden to Spain, Poland to Portugal …

have faced numerous challenges due to environmental regulations imposed by their respective governments and the . In the Netherlands, another country beholden to …

Fearing a spillover from in Germany, Poland and Romania, the government has withdrawn a draft farming law planned for debate this week and invited farming representatives for talks …

Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2024 11.25 EST. Tractors have blockaded the Belgian port of Antwerp, as continue their in half a dozen countries. have taken place …

Armenia scores high on social progress at 76.46 but has an innovation score of 32.60. It ranks at 69th in global competitiveness. Another former soviet republic to make it to the list of 15 …

other end of the production scale, 7.5 % of the ’s farms were of 50 ha or more in size and worked two-thirds (68.2 %) of the ’s utilised agricultural area (UAA). So although the average mean size of an agricultural holding in the was 17.4 ha in 2020, only an estimated 18 % of farms were this size or larger.

‘s vegetable warn of shortages as energy crisis bites. BOUVINES, France, Sept 22 () – Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his in northern France …

April 2, 2024 5:00 am CET. By Zia Weise. BRUSSELS — A specter is haunting the : The specter of the Green Deal. ’s Socialists are running scared. Over the past year, an alliance has formed to exorcize this specter: Populists and conservatives, nationalists and , French centrists and German liberals — all …

2023 saw intense debate on the legislation which will be used to guide the farming sector towards targets set out in the green deal and to Fork strategies. These strategies set out the targets that are to be achieved, such as restoring all of the ’s degraded ecosystems by 2050 and halving pesticide use by 2030, but contained little …

The focus in is on benefitting society, whereas capitalism seeks to benefit the individual. Socialists claim that a capitalistic economy leads to inequality, with unfair distribution of wealth and individuals who use their power at the expense of society. strives, ideally, to control the economy to avoid the problems …

Since the 1960s, has been working tirelessly to protect the interests of European , feeding the future of the by providing safe, nutritious food, defending the climate, and leading the way in the development of a sustainable bioeconomy. Ensure a fair standard of living for while maintaining our …

13 of 15 |. gather outside the Parliament for a , in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. The Union’s executive on Tuesday shelved its anti-pesticides proposal in yet another concession to after weeks of blocked major capital and economic lifelines across the bloc.

From Berlin and Paris to Brussels and Bucharest, have driven their tractors to the streets in in recent weeks. In Germany, an estimated 30,000 protestors and thousands of …

The scenes are now familiar across , from Poland to Portugal: angry blocking roads, ports, railways and city centres. Parts of Brussels and Berlin have ground to a standstill in …

In a number of former countries, post- land transformation led to fragmentation of large-scale farming, while in Western and parcel sizes are continuously increasing. At the same time, decreasing profitability of farming resulted in both Western and Eastern in abandonment of farmland (e.g., Kuemmerle et al …

Traineeships. There are six different traineeship programmes which involve young people in the Group’s work. The duration of our traineeships is five months. Due to the 2024 European elections, applications for traineeships starting in mid-September 2024 will open in March, and applications for traineeships starting in mid-February 2025 …

Kurt Zindulka. 6 Feb 2024. The farmer uprisings across the continent have forced the globalist leadership in Brussels to back down from key elements to its green agenda to achieve “net zero” emissions — for now. Following major wins last year in The Netherlands, tractor protests from secured another significant …

The ideological makeup of the European Council will likely change. Recent political events in confirm the growth and consolidation of conservative right-wing parties, a trend that started in 2015 in Poland and has been steadily growing since then. Only five of the 27 member states are now under -led governments …

Few words are more loaded than . It is defined by Merriam-Webster as “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration …

Yarilet Perez. Generally speaking, a economy is a system in which there is collective ownership of the means of production, central planning, and a broad emphasis on equality. In …

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clashed with police in Brussels this week – the latest in a series of high-profile over the past few months. say they want changes to Union agricultural …

in central and eastern protested this week against the impact of cheap Ukrainian grain imports, which have undercut domestic prices and hit the sales of local producers.

Yes. You have set up a false dichotomy: that either a country is “” or “capitalist”. Nearly all countries have aspects of both. In , the ownership of property and the “means of production” are held in common (typically ownership is assigned to a government). In , ownership is held by private individuals and companies.

March 2, 2024. PES. 2 minute read. Delegates to the PES Election Congress in Rome vote to adopt the PES manifesto. The we want: social, democratic, sustainable – the manifesto of the family for the European elections was adopted today by the Party of European Socialists (PES).

The history of French is filled with famous and heroic dates: 1789, 1848, 1871, 1936, 1968. But less well remembered is another date of great significance: 1981. It was in May of that year that the French left achieved its greatest electoral triumph of the postwar era, with the election of Party (PS) […]

tween 2005 and 2016 alone, lost 4.5 million – a trend that seems unreversible (EC, 2016). In 1997 the European Council advocated a “Europea n model of agriculture ” which should …

Straw lies on a road and pavement near the Arc de Triomphe on the day of a protest by over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Paris …

As Stalin’s international policy became increasingly imperialist in the years following the Second World War, was exported to the satellite states of the Eastern Bloc, new Soviet republics which had sprung up across eastern in the years following the surrender of the Axis forces in 1945.

threat of revolution in continental , there may be less reason to fear that today’s right-wing populist movements will turn fascist. In this article, we contribute to this debate by providing ev-idence that the (perceived) threat of was critical to the rise of fascism in Italy. The Italian Party was one of the

Berlin, Germany CNN —. Berlin has nearly been brought to a standstill as thousands of rally against tax rises and subsidy cuts, the culmination of a week of that have piled …

Item 1 of 5 with their tractors from Belgium’s northern region of Flanders take part in a against a new regional government plan to limit nitrogen emissions, in Brussels, Belgium …