On February 9, across Italy, Spain and Poland took part in ongoing against farming policies in the Union. Fox News reports that in the EU are demanding measures …

A Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed, underscoring how ’ sweeping the continent influence …

Tractors block a road during a by Polish in Poznan, Poland, on Friday. … “There is a man who united all and Polish against the reform he proposed …

An Italian standing on a tractor waves a national flag in the center of Milan during a on February 1, 2024. – Like other countries, Italy has seen weeks of mounting that have seen increasing numbers of take to the streets and block roads over what they see as threats to their livelihoods.

in Italy, Spain and Poland over Union policies By Ciarán Giles, Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Thousands of Spanish stage a 2nd day of tractor over …

light fires during a demonstration in the Quarter outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, Feb. 26, 2024. According to Marieke Van De Vivere, a …

The French government has expressed concern that could contribute to the rise of the far right in the upcoming parliament elections Wed 24 Jan 2024 12.55 EST Last modified on Thu …

(Bloomberg) — At least 1,300 tractors clogged streets in Brussels near Union institutions Thursday morning as staged a aimed at the bloc’s leaders meeting nearby for a summit.Most Read from BloombergDonald Trump Loses London Case Against Ex-MI6 Spy Over Kremlin DossierA $560 Billion Property Warning Hits Banks From NY to TokyoApple’s China Slump Deepens Even as …

The Union on Tuesday urged and small food suppliers to share their experiences of unfair trading practices amid by across claiming they are being short …

The most recent EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that came into force in 2023 has been heavily criticised by for its environmental protection rules, defined as “extremist”. One of the most criticised points is the obligation for to abandon 4% of their fields to boost land biodiversity, another point that Italian …

This is all unfolding against the backdrop of a “greening” CAP, which has already seen reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent between 1990 and 2010. Even the Commission acknowledges that “CAP provides an extensive level of ‘baseline protection’ for the environment on more than 80 percent of the EU’s …

across are protesting over a series of issues, including seeking measures against foreign competition and speedier compensation for damage from natural disasters, facing high production costs, constraints placed on them by Union measures to tackle climate change, and what they say is unfair competition from abroad, particularly Ukraine, after the EU decided in 2022 to …

Around 10:30, tried to break the police barrier at the Parliament, reported Belga News Agency. Projectiles were also thrown at the police again, and also threw all kinds of street furniture. A few tried to pull away the police barricade. In doing so, the police briefly deployed tear gas.

The EU should change conditions imposed on to benefit from Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) funding, Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said in an interview with French …

France said it would push to ease Union environmental regulations on fallow farmland this week, as tractors blocked major highways out of Paris on Monday and nationwide …

in Brussels as EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss responses to the current crisis that the sector is facing.Read the best of o…

Polish police said they knew of more than 580 planned for March 20, with an estimated participation of 70,000 people. On March 14, the Commission also offered concessions to …

gather during a against the Union’s agricultural policies, grievances shared by across , at the Czech-Slovak border near Holic, Slovakia, February 22, 2024.

By Guy Hedgecoe. BBC News, Aranda de Duero. in Spain have joined their counterparts in staging across the country. Like elsewhere, they demand more flexibility …

Reporters spoke to academics, policymakers and about the upcoming elections and the future of farming across the bloc. In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explores what these elections could mean for EU agricultural policy, the impact of the recent and the possible pathways for farming .

Other countries have staged mirroring the blockades currently taking place across France. In Italy, have blocked roads near Milan, with spanning across north and …

‘ across sparked a surge in popularity of right-wing populist parties and have made agricultural policy one of the main topics of the upcoming election campaign.

EU leaders vowed to ease the burden of environmental rules in an attempt to quell by , who demolished statues and started fires in Brussels during a summit on Thursday. …

The in the Union’s biggest agricultural producer come at a time when President Emmanuel Macron is wary of ’ growing support for the far right ahead of the …

The reasons for their remain largely the same. Brussels has taken note of the ‘ demands, including several meetings with politicians, such as the president of the …

across several countries have taken to the streets in recent weeks as they again the EU’s Green Deal. Hundreds of tractors and other agricultural vehicles rolled into …

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 …

In an enduring display of dissent that has spanned several months, agricultural across show no signs of stopping. On Feb. 26, a massive procession of tractors converged on the Union (EU) building in Spain, marking a continued opposition to Agenda 2030, a plan developed by the United Nations (UN) to implement more than a dozen sustainable development goals under the …

Large demonstrations by have taken place in several countries in recent days, and have now reached Belgium. The ‘ are mainly fuelled by low farm incomes. The sector is also critical of the Common Agricultural Policy and rejects free trade agreements such as Mercosur.

A sits in a tractor with a sign that reads “we feed you, but we die”, as they leave the area after attending a by from Belgium and other countries over price …

loss of agricultural land. and conservative lawmakers in the Union strongly opposed the landmark nature legislation that bolsters the bloc’s green transition and …

Many , especially the small ones and those part of family , are suffering. … driving in a heavy-duty tractor into the western city of Poznan as part of a nationwide …

French President Emmanuel Macron is putting pressure on the Union to postpone the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the South American economic alliance Mercosur in light of ‘ . “We do not want the agreement to be signed in its current form,” Macron said on Tuesday in Stockholm during a state visit to Sweden. In a week-long fight for better working …

The Union prides itself on being a champion for the environment. But that reputation is now being firmly tested, after it toned down its climate policies following angry …

POLAND: associations announced they would again block roads to prevent the entry of Ukrainian goods.This one-month measure will start from Friday, February 9. The new wave of comes after the Commission recently decided to keep Ukrainian agri-food imports exempt from quotas and tariffs.

The Union’s executive arm gave the green light Tuesday to farm buyout schemes worth nearly 1.5 billion euros ($1.65 billion). The Dutch plans to reduce nitrogen deposits — mainly from livestock — on areas of vulnerable nature have sparked heated debate and widespread by angry in this small nation.

rise up. Earlier this week, German joined up with the Dutch to blockade a roundabout in Heerenberg on the German-Netherlands border in of the Netherlands’ nitrogen emissions cap policy that will lead to mass job loss across the country.

Poland experienced its most violent by and supporters on Wednesday, the Union has ruled. Police detained over a dozen people and prevented the from accessing …

The Commission has taken note of ’ against the Green Deal in a number of member states in recent months and, in February, dropped its requirement to cut pesticide use by …

31 Jan 2024. French are threatening to take their tractor to the heart of the Union and impose a blockade on Brussels as they have done to Paris in opposition to the green agenda favoured by globalists like President Emmanuel Macron. The uprising in France continued to grow this week, as an estimated 12,000 …