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...Italian farmers marched to Rome on Monday evening in protest against imports of cheap food from outside the EU and called for tax breaks to be reinstated....
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...This week the National Farmers’ Union called on the government to boost support for growers affected by heavy rain earlier this year, which has left swaths of agricultural land flooded....
...But we should keep in mind that it’s not just in Europe that farmers are on the march. In India, police fired tear gas this week to disperse farmers demanding higher prices for their crops....
...Unions are now gearing up for further action in the coming days. Pierrick Horel, the leader of the Young Farmers union, said farmers were preparing a larger blockade of the capital....
...Farmers are certainly piling on the pressure. Thousands are expected to fill the streets of Brussels on Monday....
...The large increase in imports has exacerbated farmers’ protests over soaring costs and regulation....
...On Monday farmers will hit the streets of Brussels again as agriculture ministers meet to debate further measures such as exempting farmers from certain EU environmental standards....
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...“However, the countries around Poland and France continue to be driven by their domestic farmers.”...
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...Arnaud Gaillot, head of the young farmers’ union, warned that the government would find it hard to resolve the crisis because there were so many issues driving farmers’ anger....
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...Spanish farmers staged demonstrations in several regions on Tuesday....
...“Frankly speaking, I think Ukrainian farmers . . . support their European peers and their demands to soften the European Green Deal.”...
...But farming unions said the concessions didn’t go far enough. Frank Schmidt, a farmer from Prignitz, north-west of Berlin, said the move on subsidies was the “straw that broke the camel’s back”....
...The prime minister will use an unexpected appearance at the National Farmers’ Union annual conference to acknowledge the economic pressures the sector is facing and pledge to improve fairness in the supply...
...To address the problems, unions in the agricultural sector are lobbying for new policies such as lowering taxes on the sale or inheritance of farms, boosting subsidies given to young farmers, and offering...
...“Farmers are in an agitation mood in Paris, Germany, Spain, other places — similarly in India,” said Sawinder Singh Chautala, a senior member of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, another farmers’ union....
...In Britain, Rishi Sunak has become the first prime minister to address the National Farmers Union conference since Gordon Brown in 2008....
...Brussels types tell you (accurately) that the union has gone way beyond being a trade bloc, but it certainly doesn’t mean that market access and farm support are an optional extra....
...rather than change-averse European farmers was the main factor....
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