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The 2024 European farmers' protests are a series of protests by farmers that have been occurring since December 2023. The farmers 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 with non-European Union member states, such as ...
The protests across Europe come as the far right, for whom farmers represent a growing constituency, is seen making gains in June's European Parliament elections. Leaders are trying to quell the ...
Responding to protests by Polish farmers, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would push for changes to the European Green Deal. [ 8 ] On November the 23rd 2024 at 8 o'clock Polish farmers started to protest in Medyka, near the Ukrainian border to protest against the 2024 agricultural tax rate and the free trade deal the European Union is ...
The farmers protested against low food prices, proposed reductions in state subsidies for farmers' diesel fuel, and a EU-Mercosur free trade agreement. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In response to the protests, Gabriel Attal 's government scrapped proposed reductions in government subsidies for agricultural diesel and other measures to reduce financial and ...
As Europe seeks to address the threat of climate change, it's imposing more rules on farmers like Ubels. Mainstream political parties failed to act on farmers’ complaints for decades, Ubels says.
Farmers' protests have erupted in numerous European countries from France to Poland, exposing tensions over the impact on farming of the European Union's drive to fight climate change, rising ...
European Union country leaders will urge the EU to work quickly on more measures to support farmers in response to months of protests by angry agriculture workers, draft conclusions for an EU ...
Some staged a protest in Brussels, home to the EU's headquarters, where French farmers' union Rural Coordination called for a demonstration against the “ever-increasing constraints of European ...