The European Agricultural Revolt is raging all throughout the previous continent, and over a dozen international locations have skilled – or are nonetheless experiencing – giant protests by farmers, who’re blocking highways and ports and in some instances, like France, dropping hay stacks and spraying manure at public buildings.
We have now written at size right here at TGP concerning the motive behind this rebellion from the individuals who produce a lot of the meals that Europe eats: the failing, crippling ‘green’ insurance policies and rules that make farming not viable and threaten to advertise a manufactured famine within the area.
In some locations, akin to Poland, there’s a huge disconnect between the revolting farmers and the newly put in Globalist and Eurocentric authorities by Donald Tusk.
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Whereas Tusk’s authorities is a goal for the protesters, different officers are additionally below hearth, akin to Polish EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.
Reuters reported:
“Polish politicians called on the EU Commissioner for Agriculture to quit on Friday as farmers blocked roads across his home country Poland and at border crossings with Ukraine, kicking off a month-long general strike to protest against EU policies.”
Farmers in France, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Spain, and Germany – amongst others – have additionally been protesting in opposition to ‘constraints placed on them by EU measure to tackle climate change’ in addition to rising prices and what they are saying is unfair competitors from overseas.’
“Polish farmers are angry about the impact of cheap food imports from neighboring Ukraine and what they say is the ‘passivity’ of their government. EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski came under fire from all sides. ‘There is a man in Europe who united all European and Polish farmers against the reform he proposed. This is Janusz Wojciechowski. Resign!’ said Deputy Prime Minister Wladysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.”
Commissioner Wojciechowski was additionally criticized by the very man who acquired him the job, the chief of the previous ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) occasion Jarosław Kaczynski, who stated he would name the commissioner to ask him to stop.
“Elsewhere in central Europe, a farmers’ protest was going down on the Zahony crossing on the border between Hungary and Ukraine.[…]
Polish media stated there have been over 250 blockades throughout the nation. Photos confirmed convoys of tractors clogging roads and banners akin to ‘Without us, you will be hungry, naked and sober’.
‘Today the whole of Europe is on fire. The Green Deal has arrived, which has destroyed our thinking about agriculture’, one of many protesters, Wieslaw Gryn, instructed non-public broadcaster TVN24 on the Hrubieszow border crossing. ‘We are not against pro-ecological solutions, but they must be agreed with farmers’.”
Politico reported:
“Farmers in Poland blockaded roads and main border crossings with Ukraine on Friday firstly of a month-long collection of countrywide protests. The farmers demand a cease to imports of agricultural merchandise from Ukraine and a halt to implementing EU inexperienced insurance policies — echoing calls for made at protests round Europe. They’ve additionally requested for extra money for livestock farming.
[…] With solely months left in his mandate, Wojciechowski has lengthy been seen as a lame-duck commissioner after hitting the marketing campaign path in help of the failed bid by PiS to win a 3rd time period in a common election final fall. His repeated absences from Brussels led to criticism on the time that he was ‘quiet quitting’.
[…] Wojciechowski on Thursday revealed an open letter on the X platform highlighting the actions he had taken to assist farmers in Poland, together with lobbying to curb imports of Ukrainian merchandise and growing funding for livestock farmers throughout the final reform of the Frequent Agricultural Coverage.”
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