The European Union must overcome the “polarization” stemming from agricultural disputes, Ursula von der Leyen has said.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has expressed hope that new “strategic dialogue” will defuse the ongoing farmers’ protests over environmental regulations.
“We all have the same sense of urgency that things have to improve,” von der Leyen said on Thursday during a meeting with a group of community and business leaders in Brussels. She lamented what she described as “an increasing division and polarization when it comes to topics related to agriculture.”
“We must overcome this polarization with dialogue,” she said, stressing the need to find “a new way forward and common and lasting solutions” for European agriculture.
“I hope that you will build the trust to appreciate each other’s perspectives and to find common solutions for the future of agriculture in Europe. This dialogue aims to find a new consensus on issues with which we all struggle,” von der Leyen told the attendees.
Farmers in Germany have been blocking city streets with their tractors since last month, demanding that Chancellor Olaf Scholz reverse the proposed scrapping of a diesel fuel subsidy worth as much as €3,000 ($3,260) annually.
The German government has defended the move on environmental grounds. The farmers, however, insist that the plan would put them out of business and threaten their livelihoods.
Similar protests are underway in France, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria, as farmers’ issues are expected to loom large over European Parliament elections later this year.
The French government scrapped plans to reduce subsidies on diesel for farmers on Friday after protesters used tractors and other agricultural machines to block a major highway out of Paris and a road linking France to Spain.
European farmers are litterally ” strangled” by production” norms” edicted by unelected bruxelles bureaucrats. And controlled now by satellite. Not free to do the necessary on their own land, such as cleaning canals or cutting hedges. This is also controled by bureaucrats green party). As they get “subsides” from bruxelles, for example not using some of their land, they are not free to fix their price Most of them have huge loans at the bank and cannot live of the revenues of the farm. Wives usually working outside.
Further, not only the price of fuel and electricity has shot up, but now europe is litteraly flooded with cheap products from ukraine as bruxelles again has decided to let ukraine ( no EU member) export its produkt into europe without tariff. And the production norms are neither respected.
Suicide is very high among farmers.
GFY Ursula Von der Satan 🖕
THE EUROPEAN UNION MUST OVERCOME THE “POLARIZATION” STEMMING FROM the undemocratically created fascist European Commission led by URSULA VON DER LEYEN.
The people are waking up!
They simply had enough of authoritarian globalist BS.
All with pich forks to brussels. And clean the swamp, to begin with some europeans descendants of so called ” royals” having extemely well payed jobs within the commission ( detaxed) financed by the european tax payers. Parasites !!!!