European farmers are demonstrating against unfair EU agricultural policy, claiming that their products are more expensive and less competitive when compared to non-EU imports. Environmental restrictions enacted by national governments and the EU have presented farmers with some difficulties, so they have started exercising their right to vote and taking to the streets in protest.
A large number of tractors were transported to the Czech Republic Agriculture Ministry in Prague, where farmers voiced their disapproval of lawmakers’ environmental restrictions. Ukrainian goods, unlike their European competitors, are not subject to customs charges, therefore, they continue to flow westward at lower costs. In Ireland, strict regulations are having a significant negative impact on the agricultural sector. As part of its plan to reduce agricultural emissions by 25%, the Irish government has proposed culling 200,000 cows—a 10% reduction in Ireland’s national dairy herd. As a result, thousands of farmers around the country have taken to the streets in protest.
Farmer dissatisfaction is on the rise in some European countries like Poland, Italy, France, and Germany due to high input costs, poor agricultural prices, cheap imports, and regulations enforced by the European Union to combat climate change.
