The European farmers are showing the rest of the West the way to go. They have, via use of their tractors, truly marvellous machines, caused heartburn to the tyrannical EU authorities, who have backed down on some measures related to the climate change conspiracy. Now the farmers have blockaded the border between France and Spain, to show opposition to the EU Green Deal as elections for the European Parliament are soon to take place. Turning the last sentence of Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto on its head, the slogan adopted was "Farmers of the world, unite!" And clearly, they have nothing to lose but their chains to the globalist system that the EU represents.
Their battle is now against green communism. One farmer protestor summed it up: "Politicians have completely lost the connection with the field. They only come away with more paperwork and fancy ideas. The prices we get are far too low and many farmers have disappeared in Germany since the 1950s. Local farmers must not disappear. They know everything about the environment, the weather and so on. They don't know that in industrial agriculture."
"Farmers from across Europe took to their tractors again, swarming Brussels and blockading the border between France and Spain to firmly plant their opposition to the globalist Green Deal agenda in the minds of voters as they head to the polls for the European Parliament elections this week.
"Farmers of the world, unite!" was the slogan as tractors shut down the Franco-Spanish border on both sides of the Pyrenees starting on Monday, according to Le Figaro, which reported that around 200 to 300 French farmers joined the protest which blocked at least seven crossings before disbanding on Tuesday.
Spain's ABC newspaper reports that the farmers demanded that the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) be "centred on the farmer", rather than seeing subsidies flow to multinational growers or large landowners.
They also argued that tariffs and taxes should be levied against cheap foreign imports to protect domestic farmers from unfair competition from countries that do not have the same level of environmental or labour restrictions.
While the protest at the border concluded on Tuesday, French farmer Jérôme Bayle said the demonstration was a "successful show of force" ahead of the EU elections this week and the groups gathered vowed to return to their tractors following the Autumn harvest if Brussels does not address their demands.
Meanwhile, Brussels was once again flooded with tractors on Tuesday, with police in the Belgian capital and seat of power for the EU saying that at least 500 tractors were counted entering the city. Protesters claimed that it was as many as 1,000.
Explaining the motivation for the demonstration on Tuesday, a German farmer in Brussels told Het Nieuwsblad: "Politicians have completely lost the connection with the field. They only come away with more paperwork and fancy ideas. The prices we get are far too low and many farmers have disappeared in Germany since the 1950s. Local farmers must not disappear. They know everything about the environment, the weather and so on. They don't know that in industrial agriculture."