Farmers across Europe protest against fuel taxes, EU regulations • FRANCE 24 English
It’s um widespread because we’ve seen the uh first protests of the series of movements uh starting in the Netherlands that was mainly last year and it started out uh because of national concerns since the Dutch government was about to cut by half the uh number of cows
Authorized on the Dutch soil and that was all part of a um a preoccupation worry from the government to cut nitrogen emissions and this is all started according to the farmers movement this is all started with the green deal that the European commission has SED to impose ever since it’s to its
Function in 2019 um it was the same preoccupation that we saw uh for instance in Germany where uh subsidies on uh tractor uh petrol were lifted as of uh January 1st of last year leading to a brutal increase in the price of petrol there um there are also other worries which are
Also very national uh for instance as the uh um report we just so mentioned in Romania and Poland uh tractors taking part to the blockade of borders with with the Ukraine because uh the grain important from the Ukraine uh as part of the deal between Europe and the country
Uh is sinking is helping sink the prices of grain produced in Romania and Poland those concerns are the ones that we see uh in France exactly at the same kind of um the same kind of preoccupations worries about over regulation from the EU and all the rest those are slogans
That we see everywhere in Europe it’s really interesting Pierre when you think about you know the the faride here in France national rally taking up the cause populist movements doing the same thing getting towards the European elections thinking actually the whole policy could change depending on who has
Control of the the Parliament and and the ultimately the commission talk to us about what the agriculture ministers today are looking at well there are launching what they call a strategic Dialogue on the uh future of Agriculture that was a promise uh from the European commission uh as
You mentioned there is a high stake in the political debate in the runup to the European elections in June uh we’ve seen already the European commission uh reducing its Ambitions in terms of uh legislating over the green deal uh there will be no more uh nutrition labeling uh
Txt put on the table this year uh the Bine sector has been excluded from the new act on uh emission reductions uh we’ve seen this debate at the European Parliament over nature restoration law where the uh Riot uh opposes the left that is the friends of the farmers
Oppose the friends of the environment uh so the EU ministers are looking at a very consensus topic today which is shall they give shall they cave into the agricultures to the farmers in order to preserve the uh rights Ambitions to uh gain seeds during the elections although
The sector is not very huge in Europe but very visible or are they going to push through for reforms as they have done for the past uh 15 years or so uh and also there is one another uh topic today is that the Romanian Minister has
Been urged by the F Farmers back home uh to call for the resignation of yanovski the European agriculture commissioner
Farmers across Europe are protesting against taxes on fuel and green regulations. The fury has led to road blockages and tractor parades in the past few weeks, with farmers taking their protests to the streets in France, Germany, Poland and Romania, after the Netherlands earlier. FRANCE 24’s Pierre Benazet reports from Brussels.
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6 comments
Wait until a huge percentage of EU Budget goes to Ukraine for years to come…!
Cutbacks after Cutbacks to Health, Education, Farming, Infrastructure…
That money had gone to Israel and Ukraine, thank you farmers
The police need to step in to remove these provincial, right-wing agitators. People who know better make the rules for a reason. They only need to worry about doing their jobs, not telling governments what to do.
And I was led to believe all things in life were hunky-dory in the EU.
Beef, is your food they kill cows let's see who's next you and me?
Climate change is a hoax they know it listen to the WF European Union head she says that it's not about climate change. It's about disinformation and misinformation guess what that means shutting you up about them.