Il German government has not yet secured the approval of the balance 2024 and he has to face one again strike season. I train drivers union members GDL they announce a three-day agitation from 10 to 12 Januaryfor the goods sector DB Cargo the abstention from work will begin as early as Tuesday evening. The German railway they asked for the intervention of the judiciary. Protests, at least in Bavariaalso of millers, butchers e bakers for the restoration of VAT al 19%, the elimination of the ceiling on the price of energy, the increase in the excise duty on CO2 emissions and the motorway toll for freight transport. Possible, but not yet announced, new civil unrest medici. Sure, instead Mondayand throughout the week, the continuation of farmers’ unrestwhich throughout the country, in addition 100 actions of protest, they will block with theirs tractors various motorway sections and city arteries. Already on Sunday evening at least 48 tractors they were already there Brandenburg Gate a Berlin where the demonstrations will culminate on January 15th. Different Countries have already foreseen that in the face of traffic impediments school absences may be justified, but the inconveniences could be good more extensive and the police also warned of the risks of hay bales on the roads.
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The traffic light coalition (SPD, Greens and Liberals) after the demonstration by the farmers ofon 18 December 2023 in the capital, with thousands of participants, has already made concessions to them: agricultural and forestry machinery will remain exempt from the vehicle tax and the excise duty relief for diesel for agricultural use only will be eliminated progressively over several years. However, farmers want to obtain the full withdrawal from the cancellation of subsidies to the agricultural sector, announced by the government as part of the reformulation of priorities in balance 2024necessary for the decision of Constitutional Court which banned the use of funds raised to fight the pandemic for different purposes. For farmers, the cuts mean actual decreases in competitiveness and security for the future and complain how this is not captured by politics. The Minister of Finance Christian Lindner (FDP) from his party’s congress to Epiphany, however, criticized the protests as disproportionatecensoring as a group that still enjoys strong community subsidies wants to avoid doing his part. Even the head of the SPD, Saskia Eskenasks farmers to accept the compromise reached up. On the contrary, the Governor of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil (SPD), suggests the government withdraw all cuts, agricultural companies are still affected by the higher price of CO2; it is true that they also benefit from subsidies but they are volatile, on the price of milk – for example – from a peak of 60 cents a year ago they have fallen to 38. Full solidarity with the demonstrators from the Governor of North-Rhine Westphalia Hendrik Desert (CDU) who however recommends them to remain within the law.
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In the general political climate there are in fact above all fears that the protests could be infiltrated byextreme right. The World on Sunday reports that the federal police have collected signals to this effect on the internet regarding theHesse and the broadcaster MDR indicates that in Saxony right-wing forces like i Free Saxony and the AfD they intend to draw political capital from the protests. Already on Thursday evening over a hundred demonstrators a Schlüttsielin Schleswig-Holstein, prevented the docking of a ferry with the economy minister on board Robert Habeck (Verdi) returning from a private holiday. The agents of police on the pier they had to use pepper spray to disperse the troublemakers who wanted to attack the ship, while it set off again with all the passengers. The Vice-Chancellor was only able to return to shore at two in the morning. The agitators came from the circles of Movement identity. The episode provoked almost unanimous criticism. The president of the Republic Frank Walter Steinmeier (SPD) said he was shocked and said “we cannot accept this”; the Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir (Greens), who had also immediately taken the reasons for the protest to heart, convincing the hoverno partners to backtrack on budget cuts, stigmatized “they are people who are not interested in German agriculture, they have dreams of reversals that won’t be there.” And even the CSUwhich supports the farmers’ protest in anti-government function betting on an alternation at the chancellery, by the mouth of Alexander Dobrindt he distanced himself from the party rally at Seeon Monastery. Only the left-wing leader Sahra Wagenknecht criticized Habeck as “embarrassing” and “whiny”.
Furthermore, it is not the first time that right-wing groups have appeared in farmers’ demonstrations. There ARD reported that already in a large demonstration in Stuttgart late last year a traffic light was symbolically dangled from a loop; an example that recalls the ethno-nationalist protests who saw themselves against the influx of immigrants in the 2015. Furthermore, the was waving from several tractors black flag of the peasant identity movement Country folk and the party’s logo was also noticed Hometownsuccessor to neo-Nazi NPD. The President of the German Farmers’ Association, Joachim Quiettherefore now openly invites members not to let the protest come exploited e delegitimized as a vehicle for fantasies of subversion by far-right infiltrators.