Over the past few weeks, farmers in up to ten EU countries have taken to the streets, staging increasingly large demonstrations. In most cases, they are protesting against Brussels’ ideology-driven plans and environmental measures. So far, the most significant protests have unfolded in France, where demonstrators have blockaded major junctions leading to Paris for several …
On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment voted down the proposed legislation on nature restoration, which has divided MEPs. It is opposed by the largest EU political group – the European People’s Party (EPP), among others, because of concerns about the impact on agriculture and food security. The Committee rejected the proposal by 44 …
Healthy and home-grown food is essential for the survival of every Slovenian. However, our decision-makers seem to have forgotten this, as they try to pretend as if everything is fine and dandy, and even try to attach a political connotation to farmers in light of their protests. Although farmers are united in their warnings that …
“Without a farmer, there is no food!”; “Against restrictions on our own land”; “Let the beasts roam your backyards, not our pastures”; “Have you eaten today? Thank us”; “We will not be servants on our own land”; read just some of the banners seen at one of the biggest protests in the history of our …
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“Before we sit down at the negotiating table again, we demand the following: the immediate withdrawal of the Regulation on the Natura 2000 Management Programme, the immediate withdrawal of the Act Amending the Animal Protection Act, which gives NGO trainees the powers of veterinary inspectors and controllers! Following the withdrawal of the law and the …
Recently, information has been circulating on social media that the police visited farms before the announced protest and asked how many farmers were planning to come to Ljubljana with tractors to participate in the protest. The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska Demokratska Stranka – SDS) Parliamentary Group considers this to be a disproportionate interference by the …
“These protests will now be repeated every Friday, because the rule of law in our country is no longer working,” announced Brane Grad, owner of several plots of land in the area of the controversial C0 sewage canal, who said that they have been illegally deprived of access to their property and occupied land, with …
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The cereals sales commission will propose to the government to purchase all wheat Slovenian farmers will harvest this year, and then sell it on to millers during the year. Slovenian farmers will grow 100,000 tonnes of wheat suitable for food in 2022, the commission’s head Franc Küčan said after its Wednesday session in Ljutomer. There …
“If we will not be successful, we will have no choice but to come to Ljubljana with our tractors,” warned Anton Medved, the President of the Slovenian Farmers’ Union, who hopes that the new government will also listen to the farmers while setting up the working group to prepare measures to tackle the high cost …
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