are protesting across the Union, saying they are facing rising costs and taxes, red tape, excessive environmental rules and competition from cheap food imports. Demonstrations have been taking place for weeks in countries including France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy and Greece. While many issues are country-specific, others are -wide.

Polish in the western city of Wroclaw burnt tires on the steps of the regional government office and pelted the Commission office with eggs …

01-29-2024 IMPACT. Why are protesting in France? Tractor roadblocks explained as Paris steps up security. in France, the Union’s biggest agricultural producer, have …

Hundreds of tractors arrived in Brussels Monday and more are on their way as Union agriculture ministers meet to address ‘ concerns. It follows weeks of by across …

Amid of a wave of over higher production costs and stringent regulations, Belgian are threatening to block access to the capital as …

surround Parliament building to demand reforms. took their anger to the streets of Brussels before a E.U. summit, warning leaders not to ignore their …

Tractors are parked behind a blockade in the Quarter during a of outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, February 26, 2024. /CFP on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket …

February 7, 2024 3:41 pm CET. By Giorgio Leali and Victor Goury-Laffont. PARIS — Protesting Damien Radet, stationed at a highway roadblock outside Paris, had a blunt message for the politicians who lead France and the Union. He demanded a “stop and reversal” of strict EU environmental standards and protection against import …

driving in a heavy-duty tractor into the western city of Poznan as part of a nationwide against Union’s agrarian policy and imports of cheap Ukraine produce, in …

Farming makes up just 1.4 percent of the Union’s GDP, the latest figures show, but in Eastern last year over cheap Ukrainian imports – which saw lengthy blockades at border crossings – show how as a group are capable of causing major disruption.

The organizers, the Milk Board, said that more than 1,000 tractors and 5,000 people took part on behalf of “more than 80,000 dairy ”. The group said milk prices are …

But for some governments, the more pressing threat is the attention that ’ have attracted from far-right and populist parties, as well as radical conspiracy theorists.

(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…

There have also been in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the Czech Republic. –Reporting for Reuters by Charlotte Van Campenhout. Tagged agriculture policy , environmental policy , EU , Commission , ,

across are taking to the streets in their tractors once again to a host of issues, including rising agricultural costs and shrinking profits, the costs of environmental regulation, and potential trade agreements that could undercut the market. As Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo observed earlier this …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

‘ 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.

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Luke James, Brussels. Welsh were keeping a close eye on events in Brussels as they gathered for crisis talks last week. While they shared concerns over the future of their industry at the livestock market in Welshpool, from Belgium and beyond blocked the roads around the institutions with over 1,000 tractors. “There …

reveal struggles, make consumers rethink. by Associated Press. BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France Feb 04, 2024 – 11:45 am GMT+3. Municipal workers sweep up straw during a by over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , Paris, France, Feb. 1, 2024. (Reuters Photo)

A throws an egg aimed at police officers as Belgian use their tractors to block outside the Union headquarters, as they over price pressures, taxes and green …

2:42. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she will withdraw a plan to halve the use of pesticides because it became a “symbol of polarization” following by …

The happening right now are mainly led by who are upset with the Union (EU) over environmental regulations. The EU wants to make stricter rules to protect the environment, especially when it comes to farming practices that might harm nature.

The ’ in France come amid other tractor demonstrations countries, such as Germany and Romania, before parliament elections in June.

The are the latest episode in a growing political backlash which has been brewing for months to the … Why ’s are protesting – and the far right is taking note.

MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of drove their tractors into central Madrid on Wednesday as part of ongoing against Union and local farming policies and to demand measures to …

The Swiss government estimates that agriculture contributes less than 1% to GDP, totalling CHF12 billion ($13.7 billion) in revenue in 2022. That’s low relative to other nations. In …

The plan to gather at the Schuman roundabout from 11 am to express their disapproval of recent decisions by the the Commission in response to their early February . In response to the last , the Commission proposed postponing the requirement to leave 4% of arable land fallow each year and imposing …