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 …

FILE – Tractors are parked near the Parliament during a by as leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Fickle regulations are a key complaint heard from protesting over the past weeks, setting up a key theme for the upcoming June 6-9 parliamentary elections in the 27 …

in the Union flooded markets, unfair green policy, and forced fallow. : A slogan which reads “Hunger will be our fate” is displayed on a tractor as block the entrance of a Leclerc supermarket in Le Mans, northwestern France, earlier this year. Fearing financial ruin, across are protesting …

The 2024 ‘ are a series of by that have been occurring since December 2023. The have protested against low food prices, proposed environmental regulations (such as a carbon tax, pesticide bans, nitrogen emissions curbs and restrictions on water and land usage), and trade in agricultural products …

The Union shelved an anti-pesticide proposal Tuesday in another concession to after weeks of that blocked many capitals and economic lifelines across the 27-nation bloc.

A convoy of tractors drives on a street during a ’ in Prague, March 7, 2024. Czech have blocked traffic in Prague, cramming the streets with hundreds of tractors and other vehicles as they rallied against the government and agriculture policies set by the Union.(Katerina Sulova/CTK via AP) ** SLOVAKIA OUT **

BRUSSELS (AP) — A major Union plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how ’ …

The — which have been happening in France for two weeks — aim to put pressure on the Union (EU). Now say they are planning to go to Brussels, where EU leaders will be …

French are blocking roads across the country to demand government action to address numerous grievances, as in the Union’s agricultural sector spread.

By Karl Mathiesen and Eddy Wax. Under intense pressure from , the Commission has dropped key passages in a proposal for a new 2040 goal for cutting greenhouse gas pollution. “All sectors” would need to contribute to the effort, the EU executive’s plan says. But a mention of a possible 30 percent cut to agricultural pollution …

Jan. 31, 2024, at 6:33 a.m. Step up Against Costs, Green Rules. More. Reuters. Tractors and other vehicles queue on the A1 highway during a over price pressures …

2 of 8 | . Polish block roads with tractors in Kazun Polski near Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday March 20, 2024 as they escalate a three-month against Ukrainian imports and Union climate policies.

World Mar 15, 2024 6:38 PM EDT. BRUSSELS (AP) — The Union’s executive arm on Friday proposed weakening even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of …

3:40. drove their tractors to the Union headquarters in Brussels, setting fires and throwing eggs, to EU agricultural and trade policies they say are threatening their …

This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and of 2022: The Dutch, and , green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems.

spray police with manure during a of in the Quarter outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Union agriculture ministers meet in Brussels Monday to discuss rapid and structural responses to the crisis situation facing the agricultural sector.

Belgium. Belgian blocked roads in and out of Brussels on 30 January, the Brussels Times reported, before the city was taken over by a wider on 1 February. . Hundreds of “angry ” gathered outside the parliament building, starting fires and throwing eggs in against “taxes, rising costs and cheap imports”, Sky News

Convoys with hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at the Union headquarters in Brussels. #Live # # Read more …

In both countries, have been co-opted by far-right movements seeking to use the ’ discontent for political gain ahead of the election in June. The Brussels was no exception, and was joined by Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen and also the lead candidate of the French far-right Reconquête party …

10 of 16 | . A walks past tractors on a blocked highway, Thursday, Feb.1, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. have been held across the EU for most of the week and hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by EU leaders at a …

Item 1 of 6 People walk between tractors during a of over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, on the day of an EU Agriculture Ministers meeting in Brussels …

Item 1 of 4 drive tractors in front of government office, where they dump manure, during a against Union agricultural policies and grievances shared by across …