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Nationwide protests by farmers have once again taken place in Poland and the Czech Republic. The farmers' union Solidarnosc in Poland called for a day of action on Wednesday, causing traffic jams in many places where farmers blocked roads with their tractors, the PAP news agency reported. According to the Polish police, demonstrations were expected at 580 locations with a total of up to 70,000 participants. The protests are directed against the European Union's so-called Green Deal on climate and environmental protection as well as cheap imports of agricultural goods from Ukraine. Negotiators ...
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Polish farmers continued to block two border crossings to Germany on Monday, leading to significant disruptions to cross-border traffic. The border crossings in Frankfurt Oder and Guben remain closed, a police spokeswoman said on Monday morning. Traffic was being rerouted, but that was leading to long traffic jams in Frankfurt, she added. Polish farmers, like many farmers across the European Union, have been protesting for weeks against EU agricultural policies. They are also complaining about cheap grain imports from neighbouring Ukraine, which they say create unfair competition. They started...
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Thousands of Spanish farmers once again demonstrated with hundreds of tractors in the capital Madrid on Sunday, demanding better prices for their produce and denouncing European Union agricultural policies. Beginning early on Sunday morning, farmers from different communities have been travelling towards Madrid, causing traffic problems. However, the mood was largely peaceful, as reporters from the state TV station RTVE reported. The farmers' association Unión de Uniones said in a statement that farmers are also concerned with improving relations between the urban and rural populations. The de...
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Thousands of Spanish farmers once again demonstrated with hundreds of tractors in the capital Madrid on Sunday, demanding better prices for their produce and denouncing European Union agricultural policies. Beginning early on Sunday morning, farmers from different communities have been travelling towards Madrid, causing traffic problems. However, the mood was largely peaceful, as reporters from the state TV station RTVE reported. The farmers' association Unión de Uniones said in a statement that farmers are also concerned with improving relations between the urban and rural populations. The de...
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The German Farmers' Association (DBV) has signalled its willingness to reach an agreement in the dispute over the tax exemption for agricultural diesel, saying it will not insist on the subsidy being retained in full. "We are prepared to compromise if, in return for additional fuel costs, there is real relief in other areas," DBV Secretary General Bernhard Krüsken told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag. "We don't want to pretend to our members that whoever shouts the loudest will be heard the best." The conservative opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and sister party the Christian Social ...
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Dozens of farmers in Spain have attempted to storm the regional parliament of the autonomous community of Navarre during a protest rally over fairer prices. It was only with great difficulty that police units prevented the storming of the building in Pamplona on Thursday, where lawmakers were debating the budget of the autonomous community in the north of the country. Images broadcast on Spanish television showed officers using batons, but no injuries were reported. Socialist regional president María Chivite criticized the violent action. "The speed with which the discourse of hatred and of de...
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Thousands of farmers in the Czech Republic have protested against the agricultural policy of the government and the European Union. One farmer unloaded a huge pile of manure in front of the seat of government on the banks of the Vltava river in Prague on Thursday. According to the police, he was temporarily detained and now faces charges for an administrative offence. "Desperate people do desperate things," the Czech Agricultural Chamber president, Jan Doležal, told Radio Prague International. The demonstrators drove through the Czech capital in around 700 tractors and other agricultural vehic...
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At least twelve people were arrested in the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday as some protesting farmers tried to break through barriers in front of the parliament building and enter the grounds, police said. Officers prevented this, the police said on X, formerly Twitter. Several police officers were injured. Broadcaster TVN24 showed footage with demonstrators throwing paving stones and fireworks at the police. The officers responded with tear gas and water canons. Officers sealed off the parliament building and asked the crowd to disperse. In the morning, several thousand farmers marched to...
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At least twelve people were arrested in the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday as some protesting farmers tried to break through barriers in front of the parliament building and enter the grounds, police said. Officers prevented this, the police said on X, formerly Twitter. Several police officers were injured. Broadcaster TVN24 showed footage with demonstrators throwing paving stones and fireworks at the police. The officers responded with tear gas and water canons. Officers sealed off the parliament building and asked the crowd to disperse. In the morning, several thousand farmers marched to...
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Germany's government wants to change European Union rules to allow alcohol-free wines to be labelled as organic, its Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday. "Whoever wants to drink alcohol-free wine should also be able to do so with organic quality," said German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir in a press release. Under the current EU rules, the process of removing alcohol causes an otherwise organic wine to lose its certified status, because that process isn't on the whitelist of approved methods for producing organic wine. Berlin therefore wants to amend an annex to the EU regulation on organic...
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