[Diggers350] Blockading EU farmers topple & torch John Cockerill's statue; Welsh farmers get organised

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Blockade: EU Farmers topple and torch 
industrialist John Cockerills statue; Welsh Farmers get organised

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Emacs!

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68175942>Hundreds<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68175942> 
of farmers met at Welshpool livestock market, in 
Powys, to object to Welsh government policies on Thursday.

Farmers bring down Cockerill statue in Brussels 
protest as 1,000 tractors block roads

Emacs!

<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/farmer-protest-tractors-eu-brussels-france-b2488790.html>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/farmer-protest-tractors-eu-brussels-france-b2488790.html

Protest on day of EU summit comes as France lays 
out concessions to protesters leading to union 
bosses to call on farmers in the country to go home

Emmanuel Macron has said that Europes farming 
sector is facing a major crisis and needs to 
profoundly change its rules after more than 1,000 
tractors brought part of Brussels to a 
standstill, calling on EU leaders to do more to 
support them with rising costs and environmental rules.

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/23/clean-cookstove-carbon-offsets-overstate-climate-benefit-by-1000-percent>Background 
from The Guardian: Carbon offsets overstate 
climate benefit by 1,000%, study finds

Farmers in several countries across Europe have 
been blocking roads for days as part of protests, 
with France particularly hard hit. Speaking after 
a leaderss summit in the Belgian capital, the 
French president said that Europe is not deaf to 
the plight of farmers and that simplified 
regulations across the EU would help. The 
statement came after France laid out plans for 
some concessions to the protesters, leading to 
unions to call on them to go home.

Earlier in the day, farmers threw eggs and stones 
at the European parliament, started fires near 
the building and toppled a statue of John 
Cockerill a British-Belgian who helped Belgiums 
industrial revolution who the protesters 
potentially mistook for someone connected to the 
EU. Small groups tried to tear down the barriers 
erected in front of the parliament a few streets 
from where the leaders summit was taking place 
but police fired tear gas and sprayed water at 
the farmers with hoses to push them back.

Major thoroughfares in Brussels were blocked by 
around 1,300 tractors, according to police. 
Security personnel in riot gear stood guard 
behind barriers where the leaders were meeting at 
European Council headquarters.

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61020316>Background 
from BBC: Carbon offset, tree planting schemes pricing out farmers

If you see with how many people we are here 
today, and if you see its all over Europe, so you 
must have hope, said Kevin Bertens, a farmer from 
just outside Brussels. You need us. Help us!

Farmers from Italy, Spain and other European 
countries took part in the demonstration in 
Brussels, as well as continuing their protests at 
home. In Portugal, farmers made their way to the 
Spanish border at the crack of dawn to block some 
of the roads links between the two countries.

One of Belgiums biggest supermarket chains 
Colruyt said on Thursday three of its 
distribution centres were blocked by protesting 
farmers, leading to disruptions in its supply 
chain. Centres located in Ollignies, Ghislenghien 
and Halle in central western Belgium, which 
supply Colruyts Belgian shops with dry food, 
water and drinks, and fresh and frozen products, were no longer accessible.

At the moment, stock is still available in our 
shops
 [but] it is inevitable that products will 
eventually be missing from the shelves, Colruyt 
said in a statement, adding that it was difficult 
to make definitive statements on timing as shops have different stock levels.

<https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/farmers-fight-back-across-europe/ar-BB1hGgKZ>Background 
from Newsweek: Farmers Fight Back Across Europe

Colruyt Group has always focused on sourcing 
locally as much as possible and succeeds very 
well in this for many categories, the store chain 
said. It added it understood farmers concerns but 
did not see blockades as a solution to them.

In France, where farmers stepped up protests at 
the start of the week, the impact of dozens of 
blockades is also being felt, said Eric Hemar, 
the head of a federation of transport and logistics employers.

We did a poll among our federation members: all 
transport firms are impacted (by the farmers 
protest) and have lost over the past 10 days 
about 30 per cent of their revenue, because we 
are not able to deliver on time or with delays, he told France Info.

In his latest speech aimed at easing tensions 
with angry farmers, Frances prime minister 
Gabriel Attal earlier said France would enshrine 
in law the principle that it should be 
self-reliant in food and it will tighten import controls.

Mr Attal, speaking at a press conference, also 
said the government will stop imposing stricter 
regulation on its farmers than European Union regulations require.

It makes no sense to ban pesticides in France 
before such decisions are taken on an EU level. 
We will end this practice, he said.

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60125398>Background 
from BBC: Climate change or market change? Cold 
callers shock farmers with tree-plant plea

Detailing his agenda to boost Frances 
agricultural sector, Europes largest, Mr Attal 
said it was out of the question that France would 
agree to the Mercosur trade deal with Latin American countries.

He also said France will step up safety checks on 
food imports, notably to make sure that imported 
foods do not have traces of pesticides that are banned in France or the EU.

The finance ministry said the new emergency 
measures for the sector, focused largely on 
supporting struggling livestock farmers and wine 
producers, would cost 400 million (340m), plus 200m in cash advances.

Union leaders called on their members to end the 
roadblocks in the wake of the speech but said 
this came with the condition that the promises be 
followed by concrete progress. They said they 
would give the government a three-week deadline 
until the start of Frances giant Salon de 
lAgriculture farming trade fair for the first results to show.

 From Monday, were going to get to work in the 
prefectures and ministries to work on all the 
points that have been announced, said Arnaud 
Gaillot, the head of the Young Farmers (Jeunes Agriculteurs) union.

The protests across Europe come ahead of the 
European parliament elections. While the farmers 
crisis was not officially on the agenda of the EU 
summit, which focused on aid to Ukraine, an EU 
diplomat said the situation with the farmers was 
likely to be discussed later in the day.

Farmers have already secured several measures, 
including the blocs executive commission 
proposals to limit farm imports from Ukraine and 
loosen some environmental regulations on fallow 
lands, which several EU leaders welcomed as they arrived at the summit.

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