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Europe Protest Update

The struggle continues…

Let’s look across the pond to see how our brothers and sisters are faring in this fight against tyranny!

Their relentless resolve to is inspiring and infectious.

They’re keeping the pressure on, they’re not letting up.

I salute them.

SPAIN:

The Telegraph reports on Spain:

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Spain’s farmers have vowed to keep up their protests until the European Union rows back on “absurd” environmental measures and the government guarantees viable prices for their produce.

After two weeks of blockades on highways and disruption to several of Spain’s ports and wholesale food distribution centres, thousands of farmers have remained on the roads and dismissed the Spanish government’s offers of reform as “cosmetic measures”.

Luis Cortés, leader of the Union of Unions farmer group, has threatened to block Madrid with tractors later in February unless progress is made on members’ demands.

They are calling to protect farm-gate prices, reduce unfair competition from non-EU imports, and do away with environmental measures and paperwork that hurt productivity.

“We’re going to increase the pressure because it’s clear that the proposals we are seeing from the EU and the Spanish government are purely cosmetic and do not resolve the problems of farmers,” Mr Cortés told the Telegraph.

Elisa Ferreira, the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, told farmers during a visit to Spain on Friday that Brussels is working to reduce bureaucracy.

“The Commission is listening, it is trying to simplify things,” she said.

POLAND:

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MSN reports:

Polish farmers blocked several checkpoints on the border with Ukraine. In parallel, farmers’ actions are taking place in other European countries. Read the article by RBC-Ukraine to find out what farmers are unhappy about, how much their discontent is related to Ukraine, and why Kyiv has not yet managed to resolve trade issues.

The situation with the supply of Ukrainian agricultural products to Poland and transit through this country to Europe has escalated to a breaking point in recent days. Earlier Polish transporters and farmers simply blocked the passage of Ukrainian trucks with goods across the border, but they took more radical actions last week. On February 11, protesters damaged several trucks near the Dorohusk checkpoint on Polish territory. As a result, the grain being transported in transit to Lithuania spilled out onto the road.

The cynical prank of Polish farmers against Ukrainian grain, which is harvested in wartime in mined areas, provoked an immediate reaction from the Ukrainian authorities. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called it a provocation and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. “For the sake of friendly Ukrainian-Polish relations, the perpetrators of this provocation must be held to account,” he said. The Embassy of Ukraine called the incident a “shameful crime” and appealed to the Polish police to open a case over the incident.

Even the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, reacted. She called for not succumbing to provocations and constructively resolving any disputes.

The next day, the prosecutor’s office in Chełm (Lublin Voivodeship) opened an investigation into the destruction of property and violation of customs security, which can result in up to 5 years in prison.

Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekerski apologized for what he said was an inadequate form of protest, explaining it by the desperation of Polish farmers who are in a difficult economic situation.

“On the eve of spring fieldwork, they have no money to buy fertilizers and plant protection products. It’s hard not to understand their desperation,” Sekerski said. The investigation in Poland has been going on for several days and there are no results yet.

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BRUSSELS:

Reuters reports:

Operations at the port of Antwerp, one of Europe’s biggest container ports, were seriously impacted on Tuesday as hundreds of farmers on tractors blocked the roads around the port to demand better pay and working conditions, officials said.
“Operations are heavily disrupted,” Stephan Van Fraechem, the director of the association of port companies Alfaport VOKA, told Reuters. “No freight can be delivered or picked up, as trucks are halted, while employees are only being allowed in after a long wait.”
Supply chains are already disrupted,” Van Fraechem said. “Now ships that are already working outside their usual schedule arrive in a port where they can’t unload. This is a cause of great concern.”
A spokesperson for the port said roads were blocked at various places, disrupting traffic and causing long lines of trucks.
In France, the head of the country’s biggest farming union, FNSEA, said on Tuesday that protests that hit the sector last month – blocking highways across the country – could resume if the government does not do more to meet their demands for better pay and working conditions.

GERMANY:

Traitors these police are!

Imagine beating down the very people that grow your own food.

That’s what zero nationalism gets you, no loyalty to your people.

They’re also calling for a ban on tractors.

MSN has the details:

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The German Police Union (GdP) is calling for a ban on tractors at demonstrations.

“The public meeting authorities and the police must react immediately and ban tractors at public meetings,” the union’s chairman, Jochen Kopelke, told the Thursday edition of the Dusseldorf newspaper Rheinische Post.

“We have emphasized the dangers of tractors and tractor units and appealed to common sense in the event of a registered protest,” Kopelke continued.

Too bad.

The tractoring will continue until morale improves.

“Thou shalt not question the State!”

This lady is in for a rude awakening. All of her kind are.

Also, anyone else notice that it seems like the police all over the world now dress like their soliders and stormtroopers?


 

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