Not Just the Farmers’ Fight
The EU’s increasingly stringent environmental laws, already responsible for putting many farmers out of business, is something all should worry about if we value easy access to affordable food.
The EU’s increasingly stringent environmental laws, already responsible for putting many farmers out of business, is something all should worry about if we value easy access to affordable food.
Following the elections, it will take some time for a new coalition government to be formed; until then, farmers ask for clarity from their leaders and, above all, hope for the future.
At BBB, we try to work from common sense and to see seats and polls not as a goal but as the result of our efforts.
“It is no more a fight between the Left and the Right. That was before. It is now a fight between the nationalist and the globalist.”
BBB continues to distinguish itself as a party for the people, standing up to the crushing mandates of the EU’s Nature Restoration Law.
Despite a triumph during March’s regional elections, hopes for Dutch agrarian populists have turned into mud, as the political mainstream prepares to assert itself during November elections.
Recent protests in the Netherlands could just be the first firing shot in a wave of discontent after the European Parliament passed the Nature Restoration Law yesterday, despite conservative warnings that it would play into the hands of populists.
Attje Kuiken, the leader of the Dutch Labour Party, said that farmers should accept that food production must be radically scaled back to save the environment.
With the farmers’ voice seemingly no longer present in future negotiations, the sight of tractors amassing in protest is poised to once again become common in the Netherlands.
Dutch journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek has compared the government’s decision to holding a “knife to the farmers’ throats,” with officials still considering the use of mandatory purchase orders on up to 3,000 farms.
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