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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:35:53 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:37:03 GMT -7
29 jan 2024
The head of France’s largest farming organization said Monday farmers would block all major highways out of Paris as protests against price pressures, taxes and the European Union’s (EU) nature restoration law intensify.
“In any case, we’re escalating. We’re here today, we’re leaving the highway for the first time in almost eight days, we’re taking the RN 31 and this evening, we’ve decided to come back here,” said Regis Desrumaux, the head of the FDSEA farmers union for the OISE region.
France has said it will push to ease EU environmental regulations on fallow farmland this week but farmers say they remain unhappy with the government’s response. On Friday, the French government also dropped plans to gradually reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel.
Meanwhile, the protests spread to southern Belgium as farmers blocked one of Europe’s busiest highways and parked tractors a stone throw from the EU Parliament. Protesters said it was a taste of the protests planned for the EU Leaders’ Summit on Thursday.
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:38:09 GMT -7
French farmers have been protesting at McDonald's
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:39:18 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:40:14 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:41:15 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:43:53 GMT -7
Since last night, highways on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium have been blocked. Farmers stand there with their tractors and light fires. Dutch farmners joined Belgian farmers in their protest. The vast majority were belgian farmers, but 40 Dutch farmers supported their Flemish Belgian colleagues over the border.
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:46:29 GMT -7
1 feb 2024 #GlobalNews #brussels #farmersprotest
Brussels saw a chaotic farmer's protest on Thursday as demonstrators clashed with police, throwing stones and objects in front of the European Parliament. The protest coincided with the Ukraine financing summit, where EU leaders were meeting to discuss financial aid for Ukraine.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo acknowledged the farmers' concerns and said “We need to be able to discuss in the (European) Council on this topic, because the concerns that they have are partly legitimate. The climate transition is a key priority for our societies. We need to make sure that our farmers can be a partner in this.”
The protest caused major traffic disruptions, with thousands of tractors blocking major roads and streets in the Belgian capital.
The farmers are demanding more support from the European Union, as they face rising costs and taxes.
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:49:06 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 9:52:11 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 11:26:58 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 11:41:27 GMT -7
Folks,
It is all over Europe, Dutch, Belgian, German, Italian, Polish farmers and other farmers are furious and it seems that they form an international European alliance against the EU and national governments and their farm policies.
In the Netherlands there were farm protests as well. I was filming a Carnaval subject yesterdag evening, but I saw a large column of 100 Dutch tracktors coming from my city Arnhem where they protested in front of the Provincial
parliament building. I Amsterdam there was a large farm protest on the Dam square. The Durtch farmers support the Belgian and French Farmers protests of this week.
PieterThe farmers' protests in Belgium are not over yet. They express their dissatisfaction about declining incomes and increasingly strict European environmental standards. The actions also caused problems on Friday afternoon, including along the border with the Netherlands. Omroep Brabant is the Netherlands Public Broadcasting regional television and radio broadcaster in the North Brabant Province in the Netherlands. It has its headquarters in Eindhoven and also a building in Breda. It commenced broadcasting on 1 September 1976.The farmers protest against the strict regulations. Want to follow all the Brabant news? North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the west, and the Flemish provinces of Antwerp and Limburg to the south. The northern border follows the Meuse westward to its mouth in the Hollands Diep strait, part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
Welcome to the YouTube channel of Omroep Brabant! Here you will find news videos about all current affairs in and around North Brabant, crime, entertainment, sports and events from the province. Omroep Brabant is one of the largest regional broadcasters in the Netherlands. The Province of North Brabant in the South of the Netherlands
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 11:44:52 GMT -7
Dutch Farmers protest in Zwolle yesterday, a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Overijssel and the province's second-largest municipality, after Enschede, and has a population of 130,592 as of 1 December 2021. Zwolle borders the province of Gelderland and is east of the River IJssel.
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 11:46:14 GMT -7
Furious farmers in the parliament of the Dutch province Gelderland in my city Arnhem yesterday
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2024 11:48:52 GMT -7
1 month ago in Germany in Berlin
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