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Jan. 28th 2024 - Farmer protests unfolding throughout Europe appeared to be under some form of Western televised media embargo. Over the past week farmer protests have escalated in multiple European countries. 🇩🇪 Germany: Farmers protest the gov’t cost-cutting measures as part of the country’s gov’t budget for 2024, including removal of farmer fuel subsidies. Highways were blocked due to blockades. 🇵🇱Poland: Farmers demand the protection of their business against cheap/below EU standards grain imports from Ukraine. Farmers launched over 160 road protests with tractors and farm machinery, blocking or slowing traffic as they beeped horns and waved Polish flags. 🇷🇴 Romania: Farmers protest the same issues as Poland (flooding of local markets with cheap/ (in many cases sub-standard) Ukrainian food imports. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: Farmers protest requirements to restore permanent grasslands (to be uncultivated for more than five years) in order to receive subsidies. Dairy farmers demand the gov’t ensure a minimum above-cost price at which processors buy their milk. 🇫🇷 France: The French gov’t dropped plans to gradually reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel after angry farmers surrounded Paris and still threaten to converge on the capital in their tractors. Yesterday, they blocked a major highway out of Paris. French farmers blocked AP-7 highway linking France and Spain with a demonstration at the border protests over low food prices and excessive bureaucracy. Trucks were prohibited crossing from Spain across the border. 🇮🇹 Italy: Bologna, Frosinone, Latina, Caserta are some of the cities where demonstrations by farmers took place against Europe’s agricultural policies, agricultural confederations, banks, and taxes. In Bologna, around a hundred tractors paraded through the streets. 🇧🇪 Belgium: Farmers protest against a decline in standards of living, falling incomes and competition from cheap imported products, notably from Ukraine. Источник: The Paradigm Shift Channel ⏳
