Is the EU losing control of Europe? | The News Agents
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Paris is under siege. And this time, it's the farmers. But why?
After weeks of tractors on the straße in Germany, France are hit by similar trouble. It's causing great consternation for an increasingly weak French president Emmanuel Macron.
So today we ask, is Macron losing control of France as the far-right rises in Europe? And how big of a problem is this for the EU in Brussels?
Later, we talk to the Conservative mayor of West Midlands, Andy Street.
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I am in France and the analysis i get differa with your man in Paris. A lot of these smaller farmers are left with just 5-600 euros after paying their costs, theh work long hours and have to do some fairly arduous admin after a day of farming or risk not getting paid.
I swear the internet's ability to transform every issue into a 50:50 is just ruining informed opinion so yea EU is also gonna be affected by this.
Protesting is not a crime in other countries (just not the UK and Russia....China also!!)
I hear there are farmers protesting in Dover. Has the UK government lost control of the UK?
What's wrong about French people wanting to eat food produced in France? We should all eat locally produced food when possible.
Classic example of begging the question. The EU does not control Europe, so cannot lose what it doesn’t have.
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Does a more right wing EU vying for reform allow the UK an angle back into the EU but a reformed one that could be sold on both fronts
Farming is not a massive contributor to CO2. Farming is as it always has been since time immemorial and actually sequestrates more CO2 than the equivalent area of trees but farmers, almost uniquely, are not allowed to offset their own sequestration against their own emissions. Farmers can sell their land out to financial institutions who plant trees and sell the offset to airports, airlines, steelworks, cement works and so on but not offset against their own food production. By the way, methane emissions from ruminants [cows and sheep] degrade over a 10 year period to be replaced by fresh methane. Since the number of cows in the UK has declined substantially over many many decades and they are kept more intensively [less long fibre, more concentrates equals less methane per animal] and that each animal produces, for instance, an average of three times more milk annually now than in the 1960’s, the amount of methane produced has declined significantly over that time and even more drastically per unit of food retailed. That is a massive success story, yet the urban woke ignoramuses that decide policy make the farmer the scapegoat for grossly polluting airline travel and other really heavy industries and emitters which are themselves only producing a tiny fraction of all natural emissions
The main emissions from farming come from the transport of food stuffs, clearing of vast woodlands for the growth of animal feed, and the decomposition of waste. The main impact farming has is the run-off of nutrients into water ways causing eutrophication.
Big, easy, short term solutions - ban the import of animal feed from abroad, buy farmers waste for biogass production, a close to net-zero fuel source
The two discussing this tale appear focused on Macron as if he is the problem, Have they not worked out why the electorate are jumping up & down across Europe. Macron is only a small part of the much bigger tale of unaccountable untouchable politicians. The EU is on borrowed time.
Farming IS a massive greenhouse gas contributor - about a quarter. - with some sequestration coming from it but not net neutral at all!
Eg - www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data
@@schmules101 It’s not net neutral, of course not, but its a minor emitter that emits no more today than it has ever done and far far less per unit of food than even a century ago when the world had a fraction of the population to feed compared to today. By all means shut the industry down but be prepared to pay over half your weekly income for food or starve. Starve is what millions will do. Note the fate of Sri Lanka in the last five years, before and during the period when the ignorant ideologues banned chemical fertiliser. Repeat that worldwide and see what part of the Middle Ages and lawlessness your society reverts to.
Like all empires the EU will have a certain shelf life.
The EU isn't an empire. Check the definitions if you like.
But more importantly. Humanity can only survive with ever increasing international coöperation. The EU is imperfect, but the best attempt there is at the moment (The US was between 1880 and 1950something.
People can wish the EU away for it's problems, but if that wish is granted, their other wishes will turn into ashes.
Peter Allen is as divorced from reality and ignorant of the issues as are policy makers. I, for one, have decided, as have hoards of others that don’t have heirs that are naively keen to keep on producing cheap food for the ungrateful masses, to give up farming [growing food] over the next six months. Food shortages and ultimately increased food prices may result but we’ve had enough of ridiculous imposed costs and regulations and very real risks to our businesses. Let them eat cake as far as I am now concerned. Enough is enough!
Do farmers not realise they have the most to lose if climate change is not dealt with.
Hardly a difficult job farming in France if they can all take time off like that. French farmers are just lazy.
Short answer NO!!!!! there sorted now stop your BS!!!!
I know we all get over excited especially here in the UK when french farmers take to the roads and protest over something but its nothing new.The first publicised event that took place in France was in 1907 when winegrowers in the southern provinces of Languedoc and Roussillon forced the rest of the country to take notice with their demands for the regulation of imports and cheap adulterated wines from other parts of the country.For weeks they descended on a different city every Sunday and building up support as they went along.Hundreds of mayors and councillors resigned in solidarity, bringing local government to a standstill.Paris had to send in the army to squash the demonstration nationwide but in true french style a regiment of soldiers mutinied and joined the protesters in solidarity.In the end parliament caved in to their demands,the whole protest lasted about four months.In 1957 it was the “artichoke wars” that originally gripped Brittany and the rest of the country for the best part of a decade.Things came to a head in the early 1960s, when more than 2,000 farmers stormed local government buildings, dumped artichokes blocking streets, and fights breaking out between growers, transporters and police.The war eventually ended when, in 1967, the national government decreed that sales had to go through a regional committee.Some of the leaders of the artichoke protests founded what would become Brittany Ferries to ship vegetables directly to markets overseas.The first shipment crossed the Channel on 2 January 1973,day after the United Kingdom and Ireland joined the EEC now the EU.We don't understand the importance,power and history that the agriculture sector has in France
Why on earth are you not exploring the true & very valid reason for farmers all around Europe taking a stand??? It takes a LOT for farmers to leave the daily demands of their work to protest.
I find it telling how governments, the press and public opinion have different attitudes to environmentalists blocking roads to farmers blocking roads.
Because one has legitimate grievances seeking solutions, where as say, JSO, don't, half a dozen idiots blocking the roads has considerably less legitimacy than a significant number of an industry.
@@tisFrancesfault Sort of like those few idiots who campaigned for an early lockdown in January and February 2020. Industry and government knew to ignore them, and the problem disappeared.
Short answer is. "yes"
The other option is no.
Retirement age is very low compared to any European countries ... they also don't have crippling demographics like the rest of the EU
Lewis Goodall needs to resize his ring. It always almost falls out of his finger...though he does fight (fidget) with it quite a bit.