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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FARMER’S PROTESTS LEAD GLOBAL REJECTION OF GREEN AGENDA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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FARMER’S PROTESTS LEAD GLOBAL REJECTION OF GREEN AGENDA

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When you look at the European Union, our current Arabel is really being defined by farm equipment

0:08.0

protesting in the streets. We saw in the Netherlands, when they started shutting down the farms.

0:13.0

We saw all of these tractors and farmers taking to the streets,

0:16.7

shutting down capital buildings, blocking roadways.

0:19.7

The same thing is happening right now in Germany. German farmers across the nation, they're

0:26.7

blocking these roadways. Here's an article we can look at right here. German farmers block roads nationwide as part of

0:34.4

week-long protests. Why are they doing this? Because the German government has

0:38.2

just announced that the car tax exemption for farm vehicles and the tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture

0:46.1

are ending they're done so the government is targeting these farmers they're

0:50.8

taking away their tax breaks they're the first on the chopping block.

0:54.5

And why are they doing this?

0:55.7

It makes no sense.

0:56.7

Well, this article kind of sheds some light on this.

0:59.8

It says, why is Germany's economy struggling and can the government fix it?

1:04.0

It says already widely seen as ineffective.

1:06.4

The government was dealt a further bitter blow late last year when the constitutional court

1:10.9

ruled that its 2024 budget broke fiscal rules enshrined in the Constitution,

1:15.2

triggering a multi-billion euro budget crisis. It goes on to say the decision meant

1:19.9

that the government was unable to divert 60 billion euros of borrowing left over

1:24.0

from its Pandemic Emergency Fund into a climate and transformation fund intended to fuel

1:29.4

Germany's green transition and modernized industry.

1:33.4

So Germany is an interesting study here because

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