EU farmers join forces to protest agricultural policies

Farmers from 10 EU countries have come together to protest. PIC/AP

Czech farmers were driving their tractors and other vehicles to several border crossings on Thursday to meet colleagues from neighboring countries and join forces in their protests against European Union agriculture policies, bureaucracy and overall conditions for their business.

Farmers complain that the 27-nation EU's environmental policies, such as the Green Deal, which calls for limits on the use of chemicals and on greenhouse gas emissions, limit their business and make products more expensive than non-EU imports. The farmers also complain about low prices for their products and say grain and other agriculture products coming from Ukraine and Latin America negatively affect the market.

The farmers met their colleagues from Germany, Poland and Slovakia at a number of border crossings. Farmers from 10 EU countries participated in the protest. They invited the Czech agriculture minister, his Slovak counterpart, and farmer representatives from Poland and Hungary to rally at a Czech-Slovak border crossing known as Hodonin-Holic, which was blocked by hundreds of tractors.

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