TAG: Farms
Mob of German farmers accosts top Green as protests escalate
BERLIN — Tensions over Germany's budget crisis escalated significantly late Thursday as a group of a...
8 months ago
Merry Christmas! Now, when is payday?
It’s the most expensive — sorry, wonderful! — time of the year, so we decided to do a thorough and i...
8 months ago
Europe’s farmer protests are spreading. Here’s where and why
The farmer protests sweeping the European Union may have taken political leaders by surprise. But th...
8 months ago
Frustrated farmers slam EU ‘technocrats’ who ‘call the shots’ in Brussels protest
BRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European...
8 months ago
Fires and a toppled statue: Farmers clash with police by EU Parliament
BRUSSELS — Police fired water at protesting farmers who clogged the streets of Brussels with tractor...
8 months ago
Dutch farmers back Wilders as centrist nightmares come true
Geert Wilders is everything European centrists loathe. Now, the far-right Dutch firebrand is winning over the farmers Brussels has spent decades trying to placate. Wilders — who stood on an anti-migrant, Euroskeptic platform and has previously called for...
6 months ago
UK’s Sunak tells farmers ‘I’ve got your back’ as Tories chase rural votes
BIRMINGHAM, England — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday told farmers “I’ve got your back,” as he announced a £220 million pre-election sweetener for rural voters disillusioned by his governing Tories.Sunak was speaking at the National Farmers’...
6 months ago
The EU compromise machine is breaking — and everyone’s blaming Germany
EU policymaking is going off the rails as the election nears.The main culprit? Germany’s partisan feuds.From the outside, Brussels’ lawmaking can seem overly procedural and institutionalized. But in recent weeks, drama has riven the EU institutions, with...
6 months ago
EU takes the ax to green farming rules
The European Commission is finalizing a series of legislative proposals that would severely weaken environmental requirements for farmers — flying in the face of advice by its top scientists that agriculture must become more sustainable or it will be deci...
6 months ago
Intensive pig farming hogs scarce water in drought-hit Catalonia
BARCELONA — In the region of Osona, to the north of Barcelona, there are seven times as many pigs as people.Hectares of pig farms — long, barrack-like brick buildings with half-closed windows — stretch from the roadside into the distance. Metal cylinders...
6 months ago
New EU rules to curb deforestation add to farmers’ red tape woes
For months, European farmers have been protesting what they see as excessive red tape and environmental restrictions from Brussels. Soon, they’ll have even more forms to fill out. Under new EU rules set to apply from January, European farmers will be requ...
6 months ago
Europe’s farmers revel in affection despite Green Deal clash
BRUSSELS — If love is a drug, the farmers of the European Union should be as high as kites.After years of being elbowed to the sidelines of political debate, recent farmer protests have made agriculture almost sexy. So chic, in fact, that its practitioner...
5 months ago
Heartland Tories in solar scrap to save their seats
LONDON — Conservative MPs, months out from a general election and lagging badly behind their Labour opponents, are in the fight of their lives.Polls suggests they could even collapse into a squabbling rump of fewer than 100 MPs.And one potential contribut...
5 months ago
Watch out Brussels, Geert Wilders’ new Dutch government is coming
Geert Wilders’ far-right party is set to become part of the Dutch government — and the shockwaves won't take long to hit the EU machine in Brussels.After six months of wrangling and painful negotiations, the Netherlands finally has a governing agreement f...
4 months ago