Mike Pearson tells listeners how the last 18 months have seen a surge in farmer protests across the European Union.
Farmers and particularly groups in Netherlands have bene pushing back against their emissions targets.
For the first time in Dutch history, groups pushed their prime minister to resign.
In Poland and other eastern countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent closure of that country’s grain exports pushed for more Ukrainian grain over the land border lowering the grain prices for Polish and Bulgarian farmers prompting them to call for border closures.
But the most…
