Spain: Farmers Return to Madrid as Protests Continue
Fishermen also joined the protests, which took place at the same time as demonstrations in Brussels.
Fishermen also joined the protests, which took place at the same time as demonstrations in Brussels.
Farmers are surrounding EU institutions with strategic blockades, in their latest initiative to defend rural life against the Green Deal.
They are tired of government edicts that “do not benefit farmers, consumers, and the environment.”
Ursula von der Leyen’s plans for an EU Defence Union are filling the void of a failing green deal.
“When Green Deal policies are imposed only in Europe, it completely destroys Europe, as it makes us far less competitive,” said one farmer.
Tarring farmers with the ‘far-right’ brush is a sure sign that the EU elites fear they are losing control of the political agenda.
Farmers’ leaders say the Socialist government assured them their protests were legitimate but told police “to beat them.”
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The Commission dropped the planned 30% CO2 cut in the agricultural sector to appease protesters, but the newly set 90% overall reduction by 2040 will force farmers to comply anyway.
Agrarian demonstrators should be wary of parties who have suddenly begun ‘supporting’ them after the fiery Brussels protest.
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