2023–2024 European Union farmers' protests

The farmers have protested against low food prices, proposed environmental regulations (such as a carbon tax, pesticide bans, nitrogen emissions curbs and restrictions on water and land usage), and trade in agricultural products with non-European Union member states, such as Ukraine and the Mercosur bloc of South America.[8] In response to the protests, the EU backtracked on policies to consider farming emissions in its 2040 climate roadmap, a law to cut pesticide use and delaying implementation of a target for farmers to leave some land fallow to improve biodiversity.[18][19] Farmers' protests in Germany began on a major scale on 16 December 2023 in response to the phasing out of tax breaks for diesel subsidies by the German Government due to their unconstitutional misuse of COVID-19 relief funds.[21][22] Farmers' protests in the Netherlands have been ongoing since October 2019, it was mainly started over proposals and legislation to limit human impact on the nitrogen cycle.[25] The European fact-checking sites Newtral and Science Feedback analyzed that the farmers' protest is being weaponized to sabotage climate action.
Member states of the European Union where farmers' protests are ongoing as of February 2024
Farmer protest in Berlin , Germany on 15 January 2024
Farmers' protest in Bielsko-Biała , Poland on 22 February 2024
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