The German federal budget is in a pickle with farmers over €60 million earmarked for Covid purposes. Not having spent the funds for their original purpose the government had planned on using some of them for continuing the subsidies on farmers' diesel fuel and tax breaks for equipment purchases. The German constitutional court decreed that the government couldn't make this move, leaving them with an immense hole in their budget and an inability to continue the subsidies and tax breaks.
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Unhappy farmers have converged on Berlin, tying up the streets with farm equipment.
There's been an attempt in Germany and many other places in Europe to tie agriculture to the existential climate crisis, including aspects of this example. There have been farmer protests in the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and other countries. In as much as food is the most basic and essential need of every organism, that realization may have an impact on at least part of the multi-faceted existential climate crisis.
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