Kees van der Leun on Nostr: In their current protests, extremist Dutch farmers are trying to link their manure ...

In their current protests, extremist Dutch farmers are trying to link their manure problems to the European Green Deal (first announced in 2019). However, they had an exception to EU rules since 2006, which is now ending due to not complying with the terms of that arrangement.
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