2024-01-24 18:54:50
Published on January 24, 2024 at 7:54 p.m. / Modified on January 24, 2024 at 7:56 p.m.
By blocking highways and towns, farmers want to alert governments and public opinion to the crisis facing the agricultural sector. These actions take place in several European countries.
Most of these criticisms have one thing in common, it is the European Union’s “Green Deal”, which aims for carbon neutrality by 2050, and which asks farmers to give up certain practices. The project, which dates from 2021, was already criticized by environmental NGOs and MEPs, who feared social movements. Today, far-right parties are taking up the subject and speaking out for farmers, as the European elections approach. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, will begin “a strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture” this Thursday, January 25.
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