Hundreds of farmers took part in protests on Monday night in the Netherlands, blocking roads and lighting fires, according to police and Dutch media.
Hundreds of farmers took part in protests on Monday night in the Netherlands, blocking roads and lighting fires, according to police and Dutch media.
“They set fires, set off fireworks and drove agricultural vehicles onto the highway,” for example, the police department of Gelderland (central) described via X (the former Twitter), adding that “measures were taken.”
The police did not clarify whether their forces proceeded with arrests or arraignments.
Dutch and Belgian farmers joined on Thursday the wave of mass protests that broke out in France in January and have since spread to Germany, Poland, Romania and Greece.
Extremely complex European politics, very low incomes, inflation, competition from abroad, accumulation of standardization regulations, skyrocketing fuel prices: the demands of European farmers for action are practically the same in all countries.
Trying to calm the anger, the European Commission last Thursday promised measures to defend the “legitimate interests” of farmers in the EU, in particular reducing the “administrative burden” of the criticized common agricultural policy (CAP).
Source :Skai
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