The French government sent armored vehicles to protect a food market in Paris in a sign of rising tensions. Farmers Protests blocking highways in France and Belgium are spreading to other countries in Europe.
The Spanish and Italian farmers say they are also joining the protest movementIt also hits Germany and aims to pressure governments to loosen environmental rules and protect against rising costs and cheap imports.
With all eyes on a summit of European leaders scheduled for Thursday, the European Commission has proposed limiting agricultural imports from Ukraine and relaxing some “green” rules.
Farmers are now blocking the A6 highway in France.
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However, this is unlikely to be seen as enough to quell the anger of farmers, who say they will continue to block roads and ports until their demands are met.
German farmers are still protesting against tyrannical climate policies.
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“What is happening now is an accumulation of rules that you initially accept … until the situation becomes too overwhelming,” said Arnaud Rousseau, head of France's powerful trade union federation FNSEA.
Police moved in today, although the protests have so far been peaceful, with French farmers throwing liquid fertilizer at municipal buildings and setting car tires on fire. Arrest 18 people.
The Those arrested drove tractors and tried to block a food market in Runcis, Paris, a hub for producers in France and beyond, a police source said. For now, the police have allowed the farmers to block the road without intervening.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen has warned that while farmers' protests on highways will be tolerated, police will not allow farmers to blockade airports or Runcis markets.
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Something I don't see in 2024: French farmers are totally against the anti-Macron/WEF protest.
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According to him, there are about 100 blocks in total.
“The End of Civilization”
French broadcaster BFM TV broadcast footage of the tractors stopping from an area near the Loire River and preventing them from approaching Paris. He also showed pictures of tractors driving off roads and through fields to avoid police forces.
The Farmers complain that they have not been given due compensationThey are “suffocated” by taxes and environmental regulations and face unfair competition from abroad.
“If the situation continues like this, the end of the agricultural sector will mean the end of civilization,” said Adelen Desmestes, a 28-year-old Belgian farmer, blaming excessive regulations and bureaucracy.
In Belgium, Farmers were excluded Road access to the port of Zeebrugge on the second day. An organizer of the protest, who gave only his first name, Bruno, said more than 100 tractors were participating in the blockade.
Farmers have also started blocking lorries leaving Europe's second-largest port of Antwerp, a spokeswoman for the port of Antwerp said.
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In Italy, farmers blocked traffic with hundreds of tractors at highway entrances and exits near Milan, Tuscany and elsewhere in recent days.
Farmers union Coldretti said more than 1,000 of its members would travel to Brussels tomorrow to take part in a planned demonstration outside the European Parliament.
Commission's new recommendations
The Commission, through Executive Vice-President Maroz Ε efkoviΔ and Vice-President Margaritis Ε ina, announced the extension of social grants to the disconnection of fallow lands and the maintenance of non-productive aspects of arable land. This is a departure from the green framework of the Common Agricultural Policy, and specifically from the so-called GAEC8, a condition for good agricultural and environmental conditions that requires all farmers to dedicate at least 4% of their land to fallow land. The natural environment will, from 2023, be a necessary condition for farmers in the EU to receive subsidies.
The whole issue has occupied Paris as farmers' protests have caused headaches for the government, with President Emmanuel Macron asking the commission to set rules for importing agricultural products from Ukraine, while rejecting a draft trade deal with the bloc of nations. The South American “Mercosur” (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), which, among other things, would support the import of cheap beef, sugar and grains from South America to the EU.
The President of the Commission noted, “Farmers are the backbone of the EU's food security and the heart of our countryside. The Commission's current commitment is delivered through the β¬386.7 billion Common Agricultural Policy budget, which helps to stabilize the incomes of European farmers while rewarding their climate and sustainability efforts. Today's action is for farmers to Provides additional flexibility in times of challenges We will continue to work with our farmers to ensure that the CAP strikes the right balance in responding to the needs of our citizens while continuing to provide public goods.
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