Europe Erupts In Widespread Farmer Protests As Revolt Against ‘Green’ Policies Intensifies, by Tyler Durden

The Greens want you cold, immobile, and hungry. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

Farmers in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and other countries across Europe are protesting radical leftist governments by obstructing major transport networks with tractors. This widespread populist movement is sweeping Europe at a time when over-regulation, taxes, and the climate change agenda threaten the livelihoods of not just farmers but working-class people and comes several months before the European election cycle kicks off in June. 

Some countries hit hardest by protests have been Germany, Italy, Belgium, and France. Protests are expected to spread to Spain and Portugal. 

On Tuesday, France’s new prime minister, Gabriel Attal, promised farmers emergency funds and stricter trade controls on foreign products to guarantee fair competition. 

However, that might not have been enough, as the farmer’s union in France was unimpressed by concessions offered by the French government. They encouraged their members to continue the fight. 

“I’m so proud of you,” Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, head of Lot-et-Garonne department’s farmer’s association, told protesters in the south of Paris. 

Bousquet-Cassagne said: 

“You are fighting this battle because if we don’t fight we die.” 

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told local TV station France 2 that police were preparing to defend strategic areas of larger cities. 

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One response to “Europe Erupts In Widespread Farmer Protests As Revolt Against ‘Green’ Policies Intensifies, by Tyler Durden

  1. The FEW and Long Marchers built up the censorship/security/surveillance state for this time.

    The impossible living conditions of the Polycrisis will lead to the lumpen dictatorship of the proletariat.

    Societies that assume that their history has ended are usually societies whose history is about to decline.

    Samuel Huntington

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