Jan 15, 2025 · On Monday, Danish farmers protested against new climate taxes and rules that they say make farming in the country more difficult and worse. Among other things, the protests were directed against the criticized feed additive bovaer, which farmers are now forced to use to reduce methane emissions.

Feb 12, 2024 · The farmers are demanding the removal of all taxes and regulations that make it difficult to farm and raise animals in Denmark. They also want car and registration fees to be abolished, the green tripartite agreement to be stopped and no more solar parks to be built on agricultural land.

Feb 20, 2024 · Demonstrations continued to roil this week as hundreds of Czech Greek farmers poured into the streets of Prague and Athens, the latest in a wave of protests that has swept all but four European...

Apr 18, 2024 · Europe’s farmers are angry, and staging their biggest protests in half a century. Far right groups are egging them on, and hoping to ride their anger to new success in European Parliament elections in June.

Feb 21, 2024 · Farmers across the bloc have been protesting for weeks, saying they are facing rising costs and taxes, red tape, and excessive environmental rules. The scenarios laid out by the government...

Feb 3, 2024 · Farmers are holding protests across Europe, clogging the streets with their tractors, blocking ports and pelting the European Parliament with eggs over a long list of complaints from...

Jun 28, 2024 · Its new burp tax is expected to pass this year and go into effect in 2030, when the gov’t will start charging farmers $43 for every metric ton of emissions (in cow math, that’s nearly $100/cow). Denmark hopes other countries will follow its lead, even after months of escalating farmer protests in the EU.

Farmers and the farmers' unions protested over their standard of living and lower income than before. [13] Several key protests took place in the European Quarter of Brussels surrounding the European Parliament .

Nov 18, 2024 · Danish lawmakers have agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage over the next two decades.

Jun 26, 2024 · Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($96) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate. The country’s coalition government agreed this week to...