A wave of countryside unrest has brought tractor blockades to Berlin and Paris this week as a cocktail of grievances boils over
“If a farmer is working hard and can't pay the bills, there’s going to be frustration and anger and eventually that will boil over and you’ve seen elements of that across Europe in recent months,” said Joe Healy, the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association .As a far-reaching reform of the bloc's flagship Common Agricultural Policy is currently being discussed by EU policymakers, along with the EU's long-term budget, a proposedIt would only worsen the situation, he added.
Until now, the demands of the grassroots groups that protested this week in Dublin have been too diffuse, Healy argued. But the IFA could be “willing to block up the streets of Dublin and cause a bit of mayhem," he said, if"a specific issue like for example, the beef crisis,” arises. Resentment at a diminishing social role — and waning economic power — also seem to be playing a part in the new movements.to Dublin's streets if no progress is made on their dispute by December 15.
One thread uniting farmers across Europe's barricades is the perceived cost they face from green commitments foist on them by governments, although this is challenged by
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