Following major wins last year in the Netherlands, the farmers’ tractor protests have managed to secure another significant victory against the globalist agenda. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday the withdrawal of a contentious law that aimed to reduce the use of pesticides across the European Union, marking the first defeat of the Green Deal.
She has also scrapped plans to require the agriculture sector to cut methane and nitrogen emissions by a third by 2040. Breitbart reports: Brussels is also set to backtrack on plans to cut the use of pesticides in half during the same time frame, which farmers have argued puts them at a disadvantage to foreign agriculture imported into the bloc under free trade deals at cheaper costs due to their countries having less stringent environmental regulations than the EU.
Plans to encourage Europeans to eat less meat, a central theme of the Great Reset movement favoured by elites, have also been abandoned. Commenting on the move, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said per The Telegraph: “Our farmers deserve to be listened to.”
“I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come”, she told the European Parliament.
However, it is unclear if the concessions made by Brussels on Tuesday will suffice to quell the anger of the farmers, given that they still face over-regulation at both the national and EU levels as well as facing issues from cheap foreign produce, notably from Ukraine, which was granted tariff-free access to the EU market following the Russian SMO.
The farmer protests against the EU’s Green Agenda, which began in earnest four years ago in The Netherlands, have seen major cities such as Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and Rome blockaded by thousands of tractors over the past month, causing supply chain issues and disruptions to urban life.
Yet, the farmers have a broad base of support, with a recent poll finding that nearly 90 per cent of French voters believe that their tractor protests are justified. The support for the farmers has sparked panic among the neo-liberal factions in Brussels for fear of turning the upcoming European Union Parliament elections in June into a referendum on the failures of the Green Agenda.
In addition to hurting farmers, it has also been regarded as having left Europe vulnerable to external events, like the war in Ukraine, driving up the cost of energy in Europe where domestic fossil fuel production has largely dried up in favour of so-called renewables like wind and solar, which have failed to deliver on promises of energy independence.
While the retreat on Tuesday has been widely regarded as a victory for the farmers, some, perhaps sensing blood in the water, are keeping pressure on the EU leadership. Dutch pro-farmer political activist Eva Vlaardingerboek said: “This is good news because it shows that protesting works and putting pressure on our overlords works. However, dropping the requirements for 2040 is not enough. The entire agenda has to go. The Green Deal and the NetZero scam have to go. We’ve won a battle, but not the war.” (Article by Niamh Harris republished from ThePeoplesVoice.tv) Sources
- Hundreds of farmers took to the streets in Canterbury in protest this week in what marks the latest instance in a string of demonstrations across Europe
- https://www.gbnews.com/news/british-farmers-canterbury-tractor-protestGreg Smith said energy policy should not trump food security, saying he had seen thousands of acres in his constituency earmarked for solar
- Colin Todhunter – Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/20/farmers-protest-in-india-reignites-a-struggle-for-the-future-of-food-and-agriculture/
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