/ world today news/ In Belgium last week, farmers joined protests that had previously spread to cities in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania. They demanded that the government take decisions to support the agricultural industry amid the rising prices of agricultural products in the EU.
A meeting was held in Brussels on Friday with the Federal Minister of Agriculture, David Clarinvall, where farmers expressed dissatisfaction with Brussels’ climate policies. Farmers termed the general situation of farmers and livestock breeders in the country as suffocating.
They blocked several roads with a request to simplify the bureaucratic mechanisms regulating the activity of personal farms.
Similar actions are taking place in Germany and France, where the passages to various transport hubs and cities are blocked. Thus, in Germany, the first strikes began in December last year, and last weekend tractor drivers blocked the entrance to the port of Bremerhaven, which is the second largest transshipment volume in Germany.
And in France, farmers began to block all the highways that lead to Paris in order to prevent the importation of food into the capital.
The crisis in agriculture will be discussed on February 1 at a meeting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. On January 24, MEP Daniel Buda sent a letter to the European Commission, in which he indicated a significant increase in costs in agricultural production.
At the same time, due to the low market value of Ukrainian grain, domestic producers face a real risk of potential bankruptcy.
Previously, in Poland and Romania, local producers, unhappy with the fact that they are losing profits due to competition from Ukrainian products, organized blockades at border checkpoints.
Farmers in a number of other countries are also expressing dissatisfaction with the policies of their governments – similar events are taking place in Italy, Slovakia and Hungary, which are supported by the opposition.
Common assessments are that Europe is crippled by a polycrisis linked to various factors: rising inflation; lack of the necessary funds to subsidize agricultural producers; rising energy prices due to anti-Russian sanctions; EU countries’ support for Ukraine; the green program adopted by the EU as a program for the future, including the reduction of carbon emissions and other strange initiatives of the globalists, including the refusal to eat traditional foods such as meat.
The situation seems quite difficult as it is affected by restrictions on the supply of various products through the Red Sea caused by the actions of the Houthis in Yemen. It is the main sea route connecting European countries with Asia and East Africa.
However, this does not only apply to Europe. In recent years, agricultural workers’ protests have spread across countries and regions.
In 2022, they were in Spain and Canada. At the end of last year, they went on strike in South Korea (although the reason was specific – the introduction of a ban on fattening and killing dogs for food).
In 2020-21, farmers in India also staged a national strike over new laws that violated their rights. Government initiatives have also been affected by the drought in the region.
As a result, the Supreme Court of India stayed the implementation of the agricultural laws, and as a result, both houses of Parliament passed a new bill repealing the previous law.
There appear to be common patterns beyond Europe’s man-made crisis. Climatic influences in a number of countries, which lead to fluctuations in the production of various products, as well as the general neoliberal policy of a number of countries have a significant impact on the welfare of farmers.
In the absence of government support, extreme circumstances can bring the agricultural sector to ruin. The Russian example shows how a good state policy can correct any shortage or meteorological deficiencies (considering that the climate in our country is much worse in terms of the efficiency of growing crops than in Western Europe).
At the same time, Western sanctions significantly helped domestic producers to become in demand not only in the domestic but also in foreign markets.
Finally, there is another nuance in the actions of European farmers. Basically, they represent the conservative part of society. These are people of the land and labor who face the threat of their destruction by the neoliberal technocrats offering food of worms and insects under the sign of some ecological postulates.
The farmers’ revolt, from this point of view, is a manifestation of the political will of that part of the European population that resists the dictates of Brussels and the globalist cartel.
Translation: SM
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