Furious farmers drive their protests home to European Union leaders.
And more demonstrations are planned in their revolt against high costs, EU climate change policies, food imports and support for Ukraine.
So what political impact could their action have?
Presenter: Adrian Finighan
Guests:
Michael Fitzmaurice – independent member of the Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann), farmer and advocate for farmers and rural communities.
Francisco Guerreiro – Independent Member of the European Parliament from Portugal with the Group of Greens and European Free Alliance.
Pieter Cleppe, European policy analyst and editor-in-chief of the news website Brusselsreport.eu
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the language of the interviewer subtly promotes the status quo – von der leyen was ‘elected’ to lead by whom, how are they reducing supermarket prices, industry is suffering (while making records profits), ‘vital’ climate measures…?? Basically the Right wing has fully hijacked the Green agenda thru Woke – all they are doing is opening markets (where the multi-nationals can buy land for cheap), & trying to get the public to condemn farmers as spongers – all this represented here by Peter K, predictably from the media. All sides have been recuperated, media no longer reports any other pov which is quite happy to set up scapegoats to throw under the bus. Is it an inevitable that assistance goes to the Big Boys? – don’t scrap it, change it! The right & free markets have reigned for decades, and what is the result – high prices, work & housing insecurity, poverty. Good that something has now exploded!
We don’t want any more Food Masters!!!
Farmers are allowed to protest in every way they can think of and they’re never considered radical or violent. But, people who stand up for human rights or the environment are silenced and heavily critized.
The commission could’ve given funds for the farmers to be more sustainable instead of simply scrapping the plan for a better future, but of course, Ursula von der Leyen couldn’t care less about us, our environment and our health. All she cares about is the June election so she can stay in power.
You know why “sustainability” fails? Because as a concept, it is faulty. Think about it: do you want to sustain a broken leg or do you want to heal and improve your mobility? Same with the whole supply chain, from production to consumption. You can’t expect to sustain degraded resources and an extractive mindset and not have it collapse. Governments set this up. They could be part of the solution but choose to continue this extractive mindset and place the burden on the farmers alone.
@@marlan5470 Regenerative farming is working for some operators.
It is only viable with more investment and about 4 years to transition before ROI.
Unfortunately We aren’t getting paid to cover production costs so it is more likely that large corporations will takeover and control more of the market
Interviewer cuts off the guts of it
Climate change is 100% USDA Grade A Bull $hit…🐒💩
No farmers no food
No nature, no farmers. 😊
@@FranciscoKGuerreiro spoken like a true citidiot.
why not ?
Imported beef from South America who rely on destroying the rain forest to create land for cattle & feed is absurd. Excessive profits by oil & gas corporations are the real problem.
Fight fight fight
No WEF
Even the dog chased the Cop car away….
Government’s f off and W.e.f
Thank you grace x ue
The Italian and Dutch intterviewees are being very disingenuous in their arguments. They contend their countries don’t have a say. They do, but the democratic process makes it so that they don’t always get what they want. Shame on those two representatives.
EU
I agree with Mr. Fitzmaurice about meat imports. Here in the US, the meat industry is competing against Brazilian meat imports which are cheaper because of a weaker Brazilian currency while reports of BSE (mad cow disease) are not coming through fast enough sometimes (China temporarily embargoed their meat for a little while). We already import a lot of meat from Canada. I get tariffs are low or non-existent because there’s high demand for low cost meat but shouldn’t countries be protecting their own farmers first? We also have subsidies on most vegetables meant to keep them affordable for low-income families but if governments aren’t going to adjust those subsidies while not addressing the higher energy costs, what do they expect farmers to do?
Enviromental standards are absurd.
EU are after Tucker now
The woke cult bureaucracies of the EU are not dealing with reality. The farmers must win.
What is the carbon footprint of the NATO war in the Ukraine?
Did you forget to invite the adults to this discussing? Oye 🙄
Great topic to address, i found it interesting over here in Canada. Our small farms are all being absorbed by big boys.
We all stand with the farmers!
Let the city dwellers and politicians eat cake.
CO 2 is a GOOD Essential element for life on Earth. These death cult creeps want to kill all life starting with man kind . they are CRAZY ! GLOBALIST ARE Luciferian !
The idea that anything they are pushing change for the environment is a total SHAM !
UFO’s sightings allover in Brasil from childhood the real ones
Kisaan Ekta zindabad. No farmers no food.
Wow, did you pick up on the swayed reporting? All these measures are good for the environment? Really? Or are they good for the control agenda? Globalists ( Kazarian) is getting to their final solution, and it is our death.
If you cannot compete on the open market, you shouldn’t be in that business.
Looks like Brexit was the right decision after all!
BREXIT was NOT delivered – it was sabotaged by those who were in power, so Francesco is 100% wrong. Well done to those speaking up and out against the ‘Top-Down’ BS….
If you want to continue eating, then give the farmers a fare playing field
Basically most people are protesting. Unfortunately most don’t have tractors.
WRONG!
The position of Von der Leyen DOES NOT / is Not subject to an Election process!
She is / was appointed!
Very big difference!
European union its a leftie beaurocratic delusional extremist driven technocratic dictatorship we had enoungh
So I have my own theory on this. Climate change is rising abruptly, unprecedently fast, and the elites understand this isn’t compatible with habitable conditions for the planet for the majority of complex life, most notably humans. I’ve seen in Wales the government are forcing the farmers to allocate a portion of the land to plant trees. I believe the elites want to purposefully collapse society in order to have global famine, in order to continue the human race to have a slight chance to live on this planet before overpopulation combined with our reliance on fossil fuels to continue our destruction.
There is no ‘way out’ for humanity. It’s a shame the elites are the only ones to have a hope of surviving this catastrophe, however I believe it’s either we continue as we are (Business As Usual (BAU)) and all species become extinct, or there’s a mass cull of humans asap and there’s a slither of a chance that at least a few can carry on existing. This point of view may seem extremely unsavoury, especially from an instinctively left-wing mindset (me), but there is no solution. The planet is overpopulated, we’re abusing resources with many costs to the environment, and there is no escape with this many people on the planet.
To conclude, as much as I want to be on the farmers (and therefore with the majority of the populations) side in this war, removing all emotions I don’t think it’s the righteous side to be on in the long run. There’s a philosophy called longtermism, which when related to this matter suggests that we are going to suffer extreme pain and atrocities in the short terms (i.e. famine/mass extinction) but if that’s the price that needs to be paid for a future existence, with many more potential future lives at stake, then it’s a price that should be paid. I would never have the strength to make that decision myself, but I believe some of the elites have come to this realisation and have made this decision already.
Francisco is delusional AF!
As soon as someone calls someone else “far right” their argument loses all credibility.
Hi from Norway 😊.
Of course VDL will pprobably be greatly assisted in her re election as there probably will only be her on the ballot. AGAIN! Don’t you just love EU democracy!
Climate crisis is a scam and the politicians world wide are killing everything that we love as a global community, the global elite have to be stopped from destroying our planet,
2:15 I thought the people who take care of the soil and the animals are their migrant employees, who do not get to protest and do not own any tractors.
The EU is out of touch with the reality of life for farmers and ordinary people. They are alot of overpaid entitled bureaucrats. Shame on the lot of them.
Europes climate change hoax cult
well give me back my shares you stolled and every thing goes away cubic farms
In prison EU criminals,,disgraceful,,leave farmers alone , we want healthy food from our own land ,not warm and fake food that comes from other laboratories 🥼!all this is crime,,!,
Maybe because the European leadership has sold Europeans out to the WEF, and the US? Or because Europeans are getting poorer while their governments keep sending billions to Ukraine and funding wars while telling their people to make sacrifices and get used to being poor? Or maybe its paying more than 5 times for energy that is making the cost of farming to high, as well as causing Europe to be deindustrialized? Or just maybe its because of European leaders allowing Europe to be flooded with cheap genetically modified food from Ukraine (the stuff thst EU food safety laws were designed to keep out)? But hey…..what do I know?
They have seen how well we are doing outside of the twenty seven ,and would like some of it. Our farmers are simply aremoaning,
Net zero must be stopped before it destroys the whole western world!
It is very telling that the European policy analyst admits that competition from growers in Latin America are not held to the same standards as European growers but this is okay because it is “good” for the economy. If the goal is to stop climate change these imports should be banned. Taxes should be imposed based on the distance from producer to consumer to account for the environmental cost of transport. And VAT should be greatly reduced or emiminated on locally proced food. Helping local farmers to produce food sustainably is what is best for the local population. Perhaps the EU policy analysts should start looking at the environmental cost of the perptual war machine and focus efforts on diplomacy.
According to EU, there are no environmental issue when war is concerned – especially when a certain pipeline was blown up. Strange how the environmentalists and the scientists are so silent about it as well
PEOPLE OVER POLITICS WE HAVE ALL HAD ENOUGH.
Bunch of degenerates.
Why do EU dictators allow foods produced abroad which do NOT adhere to their climate standards? Have these green fanatics ever done any farming?
Greens policy is turning ridiculous in Europe. You can’t push it too hard. In China, we do this step by step while there’s still conflicts between groups and regions. The European policy would be a disaster in any region.
EU should keep their standards and ban everything that is below that standard.
Also pull all the subsidies because there is a market that can support this.. People need and want to eat.
If you want to eat garbage, everyone in the EU can poisen their own food to meet their lower standard..
People are educated in ways that they can’t even live without a supermarket or restaurant to get fed..
The problem is so much bigger then what is discussed here.
It’s a waste of time to watch this video..
Become less educated and more wise.
Greens = WEF = money for me, not for you. You walk home and I`ll fly with my private jet
Perfectly said
I think it is much better for EU to be disbanded because of political conflicts and economical differences. Many European nations are suffering greatly due to the oil sanction on Russia.
Environmentalists live in cuckoo land! The EU should be broken up & all these world governments should stop listening to the WEF & grow a pair of balls & serve their own people first & foremost!
Good for you Irish guy, you make absolute sense, people better wake up to reality 😢farmers are experiencing death by a thousand cuts😢😢
farmers are selfish ..we all support Ukraine ..we get cheaper foods form Ukraine ..
@@167mm167 you are ungrateful.
You know how to tell who are paid propagandists? They use words like “misinformation”, “far right” “far left” “extremist”. These are new words constantly used to throw stones at average everyday intelligent free people to confuse the less intelligent
PEOPLE !
The wef want to starve all humans
Why?
They are fighting because their governments want to starve them.
Food prices are high enough in Europe, esp. when wages, esp. in Southern Europe, are low. If they give into their demands on trade they sould end the subsidies and also require all farms to pay the national minimum wages! Moreover, subsidies should only be used for transitions, expansions, repairs, & only for small farmers, not agribusinesses.
Yes too many acronyms by far.😅
They want you dead. Period.
Big superannuation fund are buying up prime land here in Australia.. and climate policy is taking up land for wind farms ..and solar .. this is how we have food shortages not because of climate change..
The funniest part was that the green guy from Strasbourg with a ring in one ear truly believes that his powers are justified by some natural laws that supersede most of the direct experience the farmers have in dealing with nature. That guy spends way too much time on his desk and in conference rooms. It should be required for the EU bureaucrats to work every year for a 1-2 months as farm hands, or as harvest helpers, for example, drive a harvester during the end of summer.
It’s clear this is all a game to him, which is why he’s so comfortable sitting there and just throwing out one falsehood after another and rudely interrupting the farmer from making a point. This isn’t real to him, he’s just stroking his rhetorical ego. He’s laughing at the farmers! It’s disgusting with this political class.
~Praying for all farmers around the world… this is so sad.
Support from Hungary!
No Farm, No Food!💪🐄
EU farmers are selfish … they received money from Chine ..they are bad guys …ha ha
A gazdáknak a legjobbakat mindenhol…Ők etetni minket!
Because of the totalitarian fascist communistic agenda 2030 is destroying their lives. This will happen and is happening all over the world
EU Kalergi replacement plan and EU Communism 😡
Stop Climate Hoax!
According to the BBC, the farmers are protesting because our tory government signed trade agreements with countries outside the EU ! 😂😅
Those suits think that farming is like switching on the lights, instantaneous results! It’s not. Get all that money rotten cancer out of decision making and let the people live decent lives.
We cannot allow the European Union to destroy small and medium-sized farmers. If this happens, we will have no choice in what we want to eat. Large industrial farms will feed us unhealthy food, or they will cut us off from food at all if we are politically disobedient. We will be subjugated and lose the remnants of freedom. All of us. Therefore, farmers’ protests are in our interest and we must support them.
All these farmers protesting will not do anything to save Europe from a Globalist takeover. Sorry.
Tell me how these protests are negatively affecting the Globalists. Europeans have no guns?
It is by no means clear that human-generated emissions are negatively impacting the climate. The agenda is to close down farms so that they can be bought cheaply by the big boys.
The climate change narrative is a nonsense.
There was a farmer that won the lottery, asked what he would do with the money he said “Guess I will keep farming until the money’s all gone”. Small Farmers do need to adapt and diversify their income streams, farming alone isn’t enough. Add solar energy production to crop fields, some plants like strawberries produce higher yields with partial shade. Farmers in west Texas have added Shrimp & Fish farms, seafood can be grown in large tanks almost anyplace. Bioreactors are easy to build to grow algae as protein source for human & livestock consumption, algae uses photosynthesis to convert CO2 & water into oxygen and carbohydrates (which algae uses as food), some algae types produce fuel oil. If anything, politicians might just create the incentive for farmers to ADAPT, those that can’t adapt will die off.
Good ideas and could insure the future..
However..
Govt clowns take directions from an unelected WEF, make farmers criminals and penalise instead of providing incentives.
We get paid 10% of what you spend at the supermarket.. We cannot afford all this equipment and time to transition without even more debt.
That is why large corporations suck up all the little guys and control the markets with Govt assistance.
Europeans are hit by climate catastrophy from Brussels. Strike!
Climate changes are a 40 year old lie, created by the political and economic elite to take control over and take away personal freedom for ordinary people. They follow the words of Göbbels, who said that if you make a big enough lie, and repeate it over and over again, it sooner or later will be the truth. WEF is nothing more than a fascistic organisation.
The green party sucks the big one.
if more farmers in there own countries around the world would be row crop farmers and growing more food for people instead of millions of land to grow corn for biofuel the world would be all right
Its this cheap approach of thinking you can facilitate change through punishing the little people that is insulting. Peak neoliberalism. They are not serious and they are going to drive people to fascism.
Fransesko: how is eu demokratic?
Francesco just driving every thing in category Far right..well it has to be common sense….
EU lies… agenda 30 tripe…..
Why doesn’t Youtube send me these videos when I have subscribed to all?????
Land grab tactics – bury them in new regulations, taxea and fines (create a money pit scenario for them) so they’ll put up their land to deal with it – and then be there to buy it up for your own high tech trans-national food production empire
Climate change policies are destroying production of food and everything else in Europe. What we need is more innovation and not cancellation! Anyways, what we are witnessing is the end of the EU. Frexit next.
The problem in southern Portugal is that the water is being mismanaged, and is going to golf camps instead of farms.
The Green Party guy is so delusional! The far right is coming into power because of people like him!
Europeans have been robbing the world and subsidizing their citizens and farmers but now people are waking up to the reality and their business of robbing the Africans and enriching the Europeans cannot continue business as usual so the farmer’s are angry, its simple as that
,,,,CLOSE,,,,
THE EUROPEAN UNION,,,,
,,,,THE. DICTATORS,,,,
,,, OUT……ALL IN JAIL,,,,,
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GREETINGS FROM ASIA,,DON’ T EVER
COME ,,,,OVER HERE,,,,,
War !
Even the Indian farmers are protesting for almost the same reasons… Seems like the whole political world is against the farmers… Hope good for the farmers across the world 🇮🇳🌾
Farmers are the backbone of all nations🕊
Ukraine buys oil from Russia 😂
Something is fundamentally wrong with EU politicians.ukraine war make them broke and confuse.they are on suicidal path hitting their feet with axe they must listen to farmers.
Farmers are protesting across the Globe , India , america , europe.
The world deep freemason establishment trying to control food through capitalists.
We need to support farmers…world wide.
Instead of throwing away money in weapons, fund clean local farming. It’s not so hard.
Id recommend for all of you concerned about nature preservation, climate change and food security to try farming. Just for your own needs. It will teach you a whole lot and give you a understanding of life.
Take wolfs for example. If id live in a city, sure wolfs are cool, why would you want to limit where they roam? Live in the country side and raise sheep and you will see it quite a bit different. The thing is its not a one or the other. The thing is you get a perspective when farming that its a matter of balance. I grow sheep, does it create greenhouse gases, apparently but it also conserves and maintaines local ecosystems that have developed for thousands of years in tandem with animal husbandry. Do i kill and cause suffering to animals. Yes but, i also allow them to live a fulfilling sheeps life where they get to express their sheepness to the full. And safety, you dont want to come to the barn or meadow to find 10 savaged and badly injured sheep and having to put the down. But thats what wolfs do. I have nothing against wolfs. But common sense states that you have to limit where they roam. Just like Ursula wonderlion had to experience first hand, sadly.
All im saying is get perspective.