Cyprus farmers take to the streets in EU protest (Updated)
Farmers protested on Thursday in Nicosia and Paphos, following suit with many of their European counterparts that have taken to the streets to air their concerns over EU Green policies.
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Traffic chaos warning ahead of farmers’ protest
Police in Nicosia are warning of traffic chaos on Thursday when farmers from across the island stage a protest with their tractors and other agricultural machines. Drivers have been urged ...
Protesting farmers block trucks from crossing Belgian-Dutch border
Farmers blocked the Dutch-Belgian border on Friday and occupied roads in Greece while their Polish peers announced plans to shut border crossings with Ukraine as protests for fairer prices and ...
Farmers to stage tractor protest (Updated)
Cypriot farmers plan to hit the streets in solidarity with their European counterparts, on Saturday in Paphos, and next Thursday in Nicosia, they warned on Friday.
Farmers in Belgium, France, ...
Farmers’ anger spreads in Europe, governments promise help
Farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, started fires near the building and set off fireworks as they demanded EU leaders do more to ...
Europe’s angry farmers fuel backlash against EU ahead of elections
In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat’s lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides.
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Farmers in Europe step up protests against rising costs, green rules
French and Belgian farmers set up dozens of blockades on highways and on access roads to a major container port on Wednesday to press governments to ease environmental rules and ...
Farmers ‘satisfied’ after support measures meeting
Representatives of wheat and potato farmers left the agriculture minister’s office “satisfied” on Wednesday, after receiving assurances regarding support measures and an immediate €4.3 million in subsidies.
They noted, however, ...
Cyprus farmers protest proposed EU pesticides ban (video)
By Nikolaos Prakas and Iole Damaskinos
With hundreds of tractors and pickup trucks, farmers demonstrated in front of the EU House on Monday over the controversial nature bill currently being ...