8 January 2024. By Jessica Parker, Berlin correspondent,BBC News. Getty Images. in Germany are blockading roads in against subsidy cuts, with more than 500 tractors and trucks …

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.

(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…

November 29, 2019 11:46 am CET. By Arthur Neslen and Eddy Wax. A wave of countryside unrest has brought tractor blockades to Berlin and Paris this week as a cocktail of grievances boils over. EU trade deals, a retail squeeze on food prices and green-use restrictions on nitrates and pesticides have all fanned ’ frustrations, union …

FILE PHOTO: A Polish uses a tractor on a road during a over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across , in Poznan, Poland, February 9, 2024.

by German over cuts to subsidies have caused widespread travel disruption across Germany and exposed the depth of public discontent with Olaf Scholz’s coalition government …

The EU has attempted to cut some of those subsidies, leading to mass by across . However, are not just protesting subsidy cuts, but also a series of EU efforts to …

01/09/2024. The German government is planning cuts, including subsidies for . Although it has withdrawn some of the proposals, a lot of frustration has built up amongst the farming …

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 …

News. in Germany have been protesting for weeks against planned subsidy cuts by the federal government, saying that the move would bring them in financial trouble. The movement …

’s are holding mass against EU measures and rising prices which they say are causing more red tape and debt. Tractors have been on the march in France, Germany, Italy …

outside Parliament over post-Brexit trade deals. Tractor -riding have descended on Westminster to against trading arrangments they claim will “decimate” British …

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 …

[1/7] A French of the Coordination Rural (CR) uses its tractor during a go-slow operation as ahead of the opening of the Paris farm show, in Paris, France, February 23, 2024.

1 October 2019. Dutch clogged up more than 1,000km of roads with their tractors. Tractor-driving taking to the streets to demand greater recognition caused the worst ever Dutch …

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 …

The EU flag burns as Polish over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by across and against the import of agricultural produce and food …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

For months now French have been demonstrating over their working conditions, but have escalated in recent weeks at the same time as they spread across , with similar actions …

‘ 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.

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The Dutch started with an initial bout of demonstrations in the Netherlands on October 1, 2019 in response to new carbon emissions reduction legislation that disproportionately impacted . Then, on June 10 of this year, the Dutch government unveiled more extreme measures targeted directly at the agricultural industry.

The latest comes three weeks after lifted roadblocks around Paris and elsewhere in the country after the government offered over €400 million ($433 million) to address their …

Angry block roads and walk cattle through busy streets as -wide spread – are being held in Ireland, Greece, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Belgium and Holland

Watch as protested in their tractors against EU policies at a demonstration in Brussels on Monday, 26 February, as EU agriculture ministers met to discuss responses to the current crisis …

German drive thousands of tractors into Berlin in a against fuel subsidy cuts. A sign with writing reading in German ‘We take care of your food’ hangs on a tractor during a …

February 26, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch. in Saint-Etienne-de-Fontbellon, France. have been raging across since December 2023. Photo: Wikimedia. and their unions in Eastern and Central , are mobilizing in large numbers against growing economic distress. They have expressed their rejection of provisions …

’ , which have spread across , come as the far right, for which represent a growing constituency, is predicted to make gains in June’s parliament elections.

in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and other countries across are protesting radical leftist governments by obstructing major transport networks with tractors. This widespread populist movement is sweeping at a time when over-regulation, taxes, and the climate change agenda threaten the livelihoods of not just but working-class people …

February 6, 2024 01:27:35 pm. Dutch police stopped ’ across the Netherlands on Monday regarding low prices for produce and the EU’s Green Deal. The disrupted traffic by blocking freeway exit roads and setting fires. In a statement released on Monday, the police in Gelderland highlighted the health risks and …

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 …

are protesting all over and they are threatening to come to the UK too. Reuters. The Welsh Government’s own economic assessment of the plan shows that they could result in the loss of over 120,000 livestock units, £200million from farm business income and a brutal 5,500 job losses. The deputy president of NFU Cymru said the …