Angry farmers drive through the city in a convoy, with a poster reading "OLAF? [ referring to Chancellor Scholz ] Oath of office forgotten?" blocking the ferry port in Schluettsiel on the North Sea coast
German farmers angered by cost-saving plans impacting the country's agricultural sector blocked the EU state’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry on Thursday, in a protest that was criticized by both government and opposition figures. The farmer's ager was triggered by financial cutbacks imposed by EU policy on member state’s agricultural industries have.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, a Green Party politician who also serves as Germany’s economy and climate ministernd has made himself unpopular by forcing loonytoons Green encironmental policies on the fragile coalition that governs Germany, was prevented from getting back to dry land after returning to the mainland from the offshore island of Hooge, where spent the Christmas and New Year break. A police spokesman said farmers blocked the landing stage in Schluettsiel, forcing Habeck to return to the island.
More than 100 farmer took part in the blockade according to the police statement, with around 30 officers on the scene, some of whom used pepper spray to quell the disturbance.
SDP Party leader and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been heavily criticised heavily by farmers after his unpopular government announced plans to cut back agricultural sector subsidies as part of a broader package intended to plug a €17 billion ($18.6 billion) deficit in Germany’s 2024 budget. Farmers staged a massive protest in Berlin last month, when the city was gridlocked by slow moving tractors disrupting traffic flows on the main roads and busiest streets. The German Farmers Union and have promised there will be further demonstrations which will continue until Chancellor Scholz and the government change course.
A spokesperson for Habeck told DPA that he would have been happy to discuss the subsidies row with the farmers, but that “the security situation did not allow for a dialogue with all farmers,” later adding that an “offer made by Minister Habeck to talk face to face with individual farmers was unfortunately not accepted.”
On Thursday (January 4) the government announced it would partially roll back the planned measures. It said it would retain car-tax exemptions on farming vehicles, while also introducing reductions in fuel tax for diesel used in agricultural settings.
The German Farmers’ Assocation rejected all the government’s amendments, that the politicians must engage in collective negotiations with the industry and not with individuals and that protests planned for next week would go ahead as planned.
An aide of Chancellor Scholz, Steffen Hebestreit, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the blockade of Habeck’s ferry was “shameful and violates the rules” of a functioning society. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said the protest “discredits the cause of many farmers who demonstrate peacefully.”
Meanwhile, Hendrik Wust of the opposition Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) wrote on social media that “this transgression is absolutely unacceptable” and that the incident “must have consequences.” These comments reveal the growing alienation of Germany's political establishment from the people
Germany’s budgetary changes were forced on the governing coalition when its highest court reversed an earlier plan to cut by €60 billion ($66 billion) funds originally earmerked for sectors damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic to other measures, including climate-change mitigation.
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