Not the first capitulation | Crisis Monitor – Greece
Source: euro|topics
Before concessions are made to the farmers the motives behind the protests should be more carefully analysed, El Periódico de Catalunya demands:
“Beyond structural reasons there are also emotional ones. … And not all of them are the result of a political instrumentalisation which, as is clear in the case of the European and Spanish far right, is trying to turn the countryside into the armed wing of climate change deniers. … What is worrying is the fact that the only response to the farmers’ demands has been to relax environmental policies, as with the the EU’s renunciation of the reduction of plant protection products. These are, lamentably, the issues which can be most easily used in election campaigns. There should be other, far more substantial responses.”
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