Thousands of farmers across Europe have ramped up protests against EU measures and rising prices, with roads blocked in Poland, Hungary, Spain, and Belgium.
In western Poland some 1,400 tractors took part in a protest in Poznan and roads were blocked across the country, while in Spain, farmers cut off traffic hoping to enter cities including Toledo and Zaragoza for the fourth day in a row.
Many of the farmers bore banners saying no to the EU’s Green Deal, aimed at bringing down greenhouse gas emissions.
Farmers in Poland and Hungary are also complaining that the European Union is not doing enough to halt cheap imports from Ukraine undercutting local produce. They want the EU to restore a requirement on Ukrainian truckers to obtain a permit to work across the 27 member states.
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Hello and welcome to World Business Report I’m TIG Enright well we start with Europe’s Farmers because as you’ve been hearing protests that began in France and then Germany have been spreading across the continent demonstrations are taking place in Poland Hungary and Italy today the farmers venting their anger over soaring
Fuel and fertilizer costs low prices for their produce and increasingly restrictive EU regulations well Italy’s government has promised tax break bre to ease the hardship for its Farmers after hundreds began gathering with their tractors this week on motorways outside of Rome and Turin and in Cyprus Farmers blocked the entrance to the European
Union’s offices in the capital nicasia on Thursday and there have also been demonstrations in Bulgaria and more tractor protests across Spain for the third day in a row with Farmers disrupting traffic in Barcelona and in other cities all over the country and there have been renewed talks on an EU
Trade deal with South America they’ve raised anxieties even further we are tired of working and getting underpaid we are fed up that they won’t let us do what we want to do in the fields they force us to plant what they want us to plant they force us
To use the herbicide that they want and apart from that we are being underpaid we want to be left in peace to plant crops in the fields when it’s their time and not when they tell us and to stop the price Rises the agriculture business is going
Badly and we all need to demonstrate Farmers truckers taxi drivers everyone let’s see if we can fix this because there’s a lot of paperwork bureaucracy they don’t let us plow just let us plow in peace instead of all the paperwork well on Tuesday uesday Brussels made a concession to Farmers
The European commission president Ula Vander said that she would scrap EU plans to have the use of chemical pesticides by 2030 that had been part of the eu’s flagship policy to make the continent carbon neutral by 2050 Brussels also delayed rules forcing Farmers to leave Fields unused or fallow
To protect biodiversity but she did warn that farmers that warn Farmers that agriculture needs to be reformed well Jos ubbles is a cattle farmer from the Netherlands and the vice president of the farmers Defense Force he told us why he’s unhappy with the eu’s agricultural rules well first of all of course it’s
The it’s the administration bureaucracy um uh many people don’t know but the European Union tells us what to sew and what to se uh um uh Harvest on our fields and when to sew it and when to harvest this and they are checking this this with live uh satellite imagery
Every 3 days all over Europe so we’re being watched by European Union from the satellites every 3 days they invent legislation to prevent uh um uh climate change or whatever but they they they don’t um invent rules that that change things for the better we as a practicing
Farmac see that the rules that the European Union is opposing on us is not helping the environment in any environment in any way how good it was meant to be but it doesn’t Yosh ub’s there with the Viewpoint of Europe’s Farmers let’s speak now to Professor Tim Benton who’s director of
The environment and Society Center at the chadam house Think Tank um thanks for joining us today Tim um the farmers have a whole catalog of gripes don’t they uh some of those issues such as regulations are very much in the eu’s gift to to implement or not to implement
Um what do you make in the in the Hall of their reasons for protest testing have they got um viable or reasonable complaints to make yes absolutely I think I think they do I mean farmers and to a certain extent citizens are trapped in a food system that we’ve designed over 60 OD
Years and is increasingly not working for anybody um the un’s food and agriculture organization recently estimated that the costs on the environment and on people’s health of our food system is about 10 to 12% of global GDP so there is an absolute need from an environmental perspective and
From a health perspective to reform the food system but the trouble is that farmers are really trapped at the bottom of that they’re the small businesses businesses selling into Consolidated industry they’re PR price G gouged on the One Hand by the the people they’re selling to and on the other hand they’re
Subject to environmental uh threats from droughts and heat waves and their lives are becoming more difficult and the Environmental regulations are getting tougher and tougher and tougher so they’re kind of being squeezed on all sides plus of course the um opening up of new trade deals so that com Global
Competition um uh helps undercut them or issues to do with grain dumping from Ukraine so all in the round Farmers most farmers are struggling to have a livelihood and looking ahead they just see life becoming more difficult looking looking specifically Tim at the uh en enironmental regulations those that were
Planned and which are now being watered down how out of the ordinary are they on a global scale was the EU planning to have some of the the best or is this just bringing us bringing the EU up to to to the international Norms no the E European Union is perhaps the most
Stringent but I would say uh uh equally the urgency of the need to change is really becoming very apparent uh wherever you look in the world you know extreme weather growing all of the time the volatility of the whole system to um biodiversity loss and to climate change
Droughts heat waves and so on we’ve got to start accelerating this and the EU is a leader in this space but that doesn’t make it easier for the farmers we’re not paying them enough to to to take this on at the other end the Spectrum then the farmers are upset about soaring fuel
Prices fertilizer prices and the low prices that they’re getting for their goods one might think that they’re looking for more subsidies more Market interventions by the EU and I’m sure there be many people saying that that’s the last thing that should be happening yeah ultimately the problem is that we
Are we expect as Citizens and consumers we expect food to be cheaper than it’s possible to produce so that’s the real issue that we need to address over the next few years is how to make the market work to reward Farmers with the right amount of money for livelihoods and us
As consumers have to expect in the long run that food will become more expensive because we’re producing it at a way in a way that creates these environmental impacts that ultimately harm us okay Professor Tim Benton from chadam house thank you for joining us
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The last guy on this report says that as consumers we should expect the price of food to rise. The issue here however is that the greedy supermarkets take such a huge cut on food that they make it almost impossible for farmers to make a decent living and for consumers to be able to feed their families at a reasonable cost. There needs to be regulation on the supermarkets and greedy elites who are making life miserable for everyone.
Climate science calculations are as accurate as astrology … FACT. What a brainless commentator…. why fertiliser price are so high… the idiotic sanctions against the second largest producer
These people are being told what to plant, CAN YOU IMAGINE!! I got an eye opener after learning the British citizens were liable to pay tax on TV set, I really feel sorry for Europeans, My guess Europe is the only continent which have seen the wrath of greedy men who control both coercive and financial instruments from medieval to present era,
The world economic forum is the problem, but the BBC would only the public half the problem.
Gmo wt everyone is pretending is not happening
You never mentioned the other 12 countries taking part,typical BBC
Dear Professor Tim Benton: You are full of BS and have you ever heard of weather modification weapons?
No farmers no food!
these idiots ( farmers ) want a new world war.
The WEF policy behind this is Reducing the Surplus Population. You know, the thing Scrooge refers to. Look it up…
The protest is also because they get paid less and less for their products, and in the store prices keep rising for the benefits of the big corporations.Some farmers make less than 800 hundred euros a month .
With God all things are possible 🙏 you go farmers 🙏 all the way 🙏 don't give up the fight .you all deserve respect for your hard work and also your family .don't give up the fight against these evil bullies .We need real food not bug's you go farmers God's got your backs 🙏 ❤❤❤ 1000% surport from me and family love you all
Another episode of the Russian series Expendables in Panic!
Russia targets aircraft and drone production plants in Ukraine with high-precision weapons, says MD
With missile and drone attacks, the Russian Armed Forces hit installations of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and places where Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries are deployed, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported this Saturday (10).
Vote Brexit and give your jobs away…..Derrrrrr
In Poland, farmers are protesting under the slogan „Without us, you will be hungry, naked and sober"
The Spanish socialist government, serving the EU, ordered the police to fire rubber bullets and tear gas across the country at those who produce food for the people, the farmers.
American propaganda for sanctions toward Russia is why most of europe are in middle of recession. Hardly belive it was cincidence. Cant understand how noone from those countries who joined US idea for sanctions didnt anticipated it will backfire to economies across whole Europe. Whatta bunch of US asslickers Europe have become. Those who licked most have biggest numbers of farmers on streets right now.
Heavy subsidised whingers moaning about not being able to spray what ever pesticides they want everywhere. Useful idiot lobbyists for the agrichemical industry. EU gives farmers a large proportion of the entire EU expediture, so that farming is in effect a massive social security scamm. They are behaving like children spoilt by getting used to having large automatic yearly payments of puplic money. They are a disgrace as are many of the commentators who support them below!
Isn't food already expensive? Hasn't inflation increased substantially in the last 4 years? Please tell me where this "cheap" food is?
These numerous collective protests across Europe, by farmers and citizens of individual countries, are against the European Union's policies that are harmful and destroy the economy and people's lives.
Totally wrong. Farmers are getting cents for there product while big box markets are making all the profit.
Congratulations BBC for finding a relevant story 3 weeks after I heard about it while I live in Western Canada. 🚜🚜🚜🚜👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🇨🇦🍁
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“If there isn’t a global ecological and economic disaster, by golly, we ought to create one!” – The EU.
European countries should get back to reality and leave the EU. Plant their own crops, suitable to their own countries. The EU made the UK rip out all of our orchards, for instance. Why have they got the right?
Farmers are doing the right thing. 😅😅😅😅😅
Soylent green anyone?
the govt officials simply raise the flag of climate change and environmental protection and set a lot of nonsense rules to keep their high-pay jobs. What we need is a small govt.
If u want to starve listen to these boffins and the bbc, globalist scam to introduce zee bugs and zee hunger games
HI CORRUPT LEFTY WOKE REMOANER BBC…..NOT ON THE MAIN NEWS THEN YOU LOW LIFE !
EU….BIG MOTHER !
BBC is such a tool of the state…the US's ABC/NBC/CNN/CBS
Stupid leaders. Can never ever leave anything alone and always destroys what is good to bad. Absolutely csick of these incompetent nazilike dumb leaders. No respect to anyone.
Tim talks shite and the BBC is a propaganda channel
Inflation hitting everyone
Sounds like these “leaders” want a new world order and them controlling us and everything with it. Give them hell from 🇺🇸
Farmers have been underpaid for sure, no doubt. Look at Turkish farmers. They are to be given, as per constitution, 1% of the budget every year, which they haven’t received in years. Their equipments have been repossessed by banks etc. Farmers, despite the fact that they are our literal source of sustenance, have been neglected, also by society. Look how fast ppl left farming in the last 100 years.
Those farmers need a colony planet in the Milky Way galaxy, like planet agriculture
They want your farms they want your land and they want to own and control the food supply so it’s goodbye farmers … good for all of you for standing up 👍
No farmers, no food… no people. THAT'S THE PLAN!
Great to see, well done the farmers. Get these Net Zero freaks out.
Being believe anything the bbc say. Why are you only now reporting on the protests. Full of shite
Soon see this in india
Ooops that didn't work out to well did it! We all saw it on tik tok or youtube shorts, that is we saw you not report on major news again. Quickly pump some stuff out now that makes it look like we where always covering this!
So lets look at the free west right now.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION:
1.Praying in wrong places as the wrong religion = jail
2.Sharing the POC music with a n word in it? = probation and house arrest
3. Saying things the government don't like on social media = fines, jail, probation and house arrest
4. Protesting = some of the above
5. Refusal to repeat language scientifically indisputably proven false (XX, XY) = jail
6. New classes of people that cannot be criticised without backlash (lgbt)
WAR:
1. Bipartisan support for a country currently committing genocide
2. Support for a pseudo-democratic nation that contained to provoke Russia in multiple ways, had multiple breakaway states (thoses things you get when democracy is real and the people represented) with over 100 billion dollars in aid and with major disinformation campaign to get general support.
3. About to lose unipolar status leaving China and Russia in charge of ASIA. NK will attack SK (likely along with china who will go for Taiwan at the same time) as soon more more conflict draws in the US
ECONOMY:
1. MONEY PRINTER GO BRRRRRRRRRRR
2. Inflation or deflation
3. Farmer land go bye bye
4. Moving towards fake housing bubble economies that are designed to enslave and keep you poor
5. We can see your bank accounts now (as of this week in fact) we know everything, we know those twice monthly £140 atm withdrawals aint going on food anymore (drugs) we know you are selling drugs hell we can even figure out if your religious or LGBT and then ruin you without even having to meet you.
6. DIGITAL MONEY SOON GUYS DONT WORRY!
CULTURE
1. Debankment readily available, already excuses around that let goverments cut of your funds without trial all they need to say is anti money laundering
2. Pull out the false rape allegations if they are really causing a problem (pairs very well with fake rape allegations) (russel brand, andrew tate and donald trump are recent victims of this attack)
3. Be a weak man (you cannot cause harm if you are weak and others do not wish to seek harm upon me)
4. Be a conferential but totally opposed women branded with the right to pick almost any man she wants and then have ability take his money, his house, house children and his life for just existing.
5. LGBT!
6. Every citizen has highly additive device with state approved media to learn misinformation to further the states goals (Tik Tok and YouTube shorts)
Got to love the harmony the EU brings
"The EU made a concession with farmers."
No they didn't, they simply made a concession with their own bureaucrats.
Why use the term ‘gripe’!? 😡That’s so disrespectful and not accurate…the whole situation is a lot more serious and the BBC can’t manage to represent it accurately unless they’re interviewing an ‘expert’. If governments want to improve farming they should allow farmers to write the guidelines.
Agriculture does need to be reformed to help nature. But farmers need to be onboard and paid correctly. So if that means you pay a little more for food so be it, it’s not like people will be dying of starvation, we’ve gotten too greedy.
ユニークな抗議！
Next step for the farmers, make a politikal parti, so the people can vote the problem out.