European farmers are increasingly revolting against the European Union's free trade and green policies, which they argue are squeezing their livelihoods and threatening the region's food sovereignty. The concentration of agricultural land in the hands of a few large firms has exacerbated the situation, leading to the disappearance of small farms across Europe. Critics argue that these policies are creating dangerous import dependencies and compromising long-term food security. The EU's approach, which includes promoting the import of goods that could be produced domestically, is seen as counterproductive to reducing emissions and supporting local farmers. Thomas Fazi, writing for COMPACT, highlights these issues and questions the EU's trade regime.
Free trade has contributed to the disappearance of small farms and growing corporate consolidation of agriculture in the EU, created dangerous import dependencies and is now also threatening Europe’s long-term food security. My latest for @compactmag_: https://t.co/oSMlFUPPBY
The concerns of farmers are being ignored and livelihoods destroyed by governments with restrictive policies, supermarkets paying unfair prices & corporations asset grabbing farmland. That’s why I founded @NoFarmsNoFoods. As I recently discussed with Neil Oliver. #NoFarmersNoFood https://t.co/JWPgXPYgw1
Free trade has contributed to the disappearance of small farms and growing corporate consolidation of agriculture in the EU, created dangerous import dependencies and is now also threatening Europe’s long-term food security. My latest: https://t.co/uEg9ZW8LVi
The EU’s green+free trade agenda is utterly absurd: bankrupting European farmers in the name of reducing emissions while promoting the import of what could otherwise be produced domestically from the other side of the world. I talk about it here: https://t.co/oSMlFUQnrw
According to the Brussels mandarins, the impact of free trade is almost unambiguously positive—including for agriculture. But does this claim hold up to scrutiny? @battleforeurope disagrees. https://t.co/xY2t2kOH8I
According to the mandarins in Brussels, the impact of free trade is almost unambiguously positive—including for agriculture. But does this claim hold up to scrutiny? My latest for @compactmag_: https://t.co/oSMlFUPPBY
Small farms have been disappearing across Europe for years. As a result, most EU agricultural land today is concentrated in the hands of a small number of corporate mega-farms. My @compactmag_ piece on the deep roots of the farmers’ protests: https://t.co/oSMlFUPPBY
Today, it's Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope on European farmers https://t.co/w0Zyw0Typ7 "The tide is turning against free trade, and rightly so."
"According to the mandarins in Brussels, the impact of free trade is almost unambiguously positive—including for agriculture. But does this claim hold up to scrutiny?" Latest @battleforeurope, on why farmers are rejecting the EU's trade regime: https://t.co/lw6aQ8hhPJ
European farmers are revolting against the bloc’s free trade regime, and rightly so. Free trade squeezes domestic agricultural producers, exposes consumers to lower quality products and threatens Europe’s food sovereignty. My latest for @compactmag_! https://t.co/oSMlFUPPBY
“Agricultural land is concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of very large firms.” Read Thomas Fazi’s @battleforeurope latest piece in COMPACT: https://t.co/xY2t2kOH8I
We've heard a lot about European farmers rising up against EU "green" policies that squeeze their livelihoods. That's part of the story. The other part is the role of lopsided free-trade regimes destroying small/midsize farms. @battleforeurope reports. https://t.co/msiIjQuikR
This lady echoes what we in the @WorkersPartyGB say in our manifesto. We need to get UK agriculture self-sufficient, not rely on food imports and most importantly get the value created by the hard-working farmers back in the hands of the farmers. It is not right that people like… https://t.co/5Ji8LAZeCw