The Netherlands-Farmers are threatening to bring the country to a standstill if the government implements the measures it wants to introduce in the agricultural sector.

Juli 07, 2022 Netherlands-Àlex Grau Retweeted Deciphering War @descifraguerra 🇳 PROTESTS IN THE NETHERLANDS 🇳 Farmers are threatening to paralyse the country if the government implements the measures it wants to introduce in the agricultural sector. These actions would include blocking several airports or the port of Rotterdam. --- Deciphering War @decipheringwar - Jul 1 Replying to @descifraguerra 🇳🇱 The current conflict has its origins in 2019, when a report by the Royal Institute for Public Health and the Environment singled out farmers as responsible for 46% of industrial nitrogen emissions, mainly due to cow manure. --- Deciphering War @decipheringwar - Jul 1 🇳🇱 At that time the MP Tjeerd de Groot, a member of the Democrats 66 party, publicly proposed to halve the total number of cattle in the Netherlands. This proposal was opposed from the outset by the sectors concerned. ----- Deciphering War @decipheringwar - Jul 1 🇳🇱 During the autumn of 2019 farmers deployed a large number of protests all over the country, especially in The Hague, even blocking roads. In the city of Groningen they even stormed an administrative building.