2024-01-08T16:48:38+00:00
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/ Today, Monday, farmers in Germany began protests under the slogan “Never bite the hand that feeds you,” which will continue for a full week, due to the government’s planned reduction in support for the agricultural sector.
Farmers’ associations in a number of German states intend to organize events aimed at blocking traffic throughout Germany, and the effects of the protests are expected to vary greatly from one region to another.
German farmers are dissatisfied with the government’s plan to reduce agricultural subsidies, including fuel subsidies used in the sector, despite the government already withdrawing some subsidy reduction measures, as the planned protests aim to ensure that the government withdraws from the subsidy reduction plan.
These cuts were part of a package of measures aimed at filling a billion-euro gap in the government budget after a historic ruling by the Supreme Court at the end of last year that led to chaos in the financial plans of the government coalition.
On Thursday, a group of angry farmers intercepted Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and prevented him from leaving a ferry he was on for several hours, after about 100 people participated in the siege of the pier, and the police used pepper spray to disperse the protest.