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...Claus Hochrein, a farmer from Eisenheim in Bavaria, said the subsidy cut was the last straw but rising bureaucracy was also a problem, such as tougher EU rules on the use of fertilisers and pesticides....
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...The 68ers such as Germany’s Joschka Fischer, the UK’s Jack Straw and France’s Lionel Jospin played a leading role in European politics well into the 2000s....
...My own straw poll of food writers confirmed common favourite Lurpak as the preferred option....
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...Maybe this was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Gideon RachmanAnd yet the AfD does continue to have high levels of support. I mean, they’ve been up at what levels in the polls?...
...Later, he took a photograph staring at himself in his pond: Narcissus in a straw hat....
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...Putin’s bluster may turn out to be toothless; but it could also be a straw in the wind. gillian.tett@ft.com...
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...The expected rise in Ofgem’s utility tariff cap this autumn could be the final straw before the UK enters a consumer-driven downturn,” she said....
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