Agricultural Europe is up in arms

Farmers in several European countries are protesting against a series of measures imposed by the European Union. The demonstrations have spread to Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, France, Lithuania, Poland and even Greece. What happens in Spain and Portugal is pending.

The main concerns of farmers are the regulations of the European Union, especially with regard to agriculture and the environment, the increase in energy costs and the effects of the so-called European green deal, in Germany and Romania for For example, farmers have protested against the elimination of tax exemptions for vehicles and especially against the increase in insurance costs for heavy machinery.

In Poland tensions have arisen over a possible agreement with Ukraine on the transit of agricultural products that Polish farmers already see as a threat to their own interests due to an uncontrolled influx of goods from Ukraine, in France farmers have blocked roads In protest against the government's environmental regulations and rising energy costs, Greek farmers have similarly shown their discontent with high production costs, or at least high production costs and insufficient compensation for losses. crops due to the natural disasters they have experienced.

Lithuanian farmers are dissatisfied with agricultural policy the increase in taxes on gas and also good liquefied gas on The abolition of reduced taxes for their trucks among many other issues, have you heard anything about all this, I know, the traditional media only talks in brief insertions that there is some movement in Germany and now they also begin to explain something about France, but in no case will you have heard that agricultural Europe has taken up arms and that is because there is a clear directive that it should not be known, no is infected and, above all, the real situation of our field and the green rope that they have put around its neck are not evident.

A country, a continent that turns its back on its Agricultural sector is a country or a continent sold, the green pact or The European Green Deal as it is officially known is a political initiative of the European Union that aims to transform the economy of the European Union to achieve sustainable development, this pact focuses on several points that are key or at least that is what they propose: climate neutrality, the main objective is for Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent in 2050, no matter what. bad, whether things go well for some or things go badly for others, means an economy with zero net greenhouse gas emissions.

The second point is clean energy includes the use of renewable energy sources, an increase in energy efficiency, the third point is the circular economy they want to reduce resource consumption and minimize waste, promoting an economy where products are reused, repaired and they are recycled; The fourth point is the restoration of biodiversity, they want to protect and restore the biodiversity of Europe's ecosystems. All of that is very good.

They also want sustainable transport by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector by promoting cleaner and more sustainable means of transport, zero pollution, the objective is to almost completely reduce air, water and soil pollution.

And in the last point, the pact calls for promoting agricultural practices that respect the environment through the farm-to-table strategy, and where it says “promote” should be replaced by actually imposing, punishment, green rope penalties, these protests They have obviously caught the attention of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Agriculture of the European Union, a certain Janusz Czeslaw Wojciechowski, has assured that the European Executive is willing to listen to the voice of farmers and that he thinks it is possible to consider their concerns in the future. of the common agricultural policy.

What happens is that, however, the expansion of the protests remains a feasible possibility for the rest of the countries and here Spanish, Italian and Portuguese farmers could also be included and they do not know exactly how to play at this moment, the discontent is general and the variety of claims reflect growing tensions between European Union policies and the needs and concerns of farmers in each of those countries.