A farmers’ protest party in the Netherlands has caused a shock after winning provincial elections this week just four years after their founding. Could their rise have wider implications? The ...

WOUDENBERG, Netherlands — The dairy farmers of the Netherlands have had enough. They have set fire to hay and manure along highways, dumped trash on roads to create traffic jams, and blockaded ...

The farmers’ plight is stirring a thorny debate on climate action, with implications well beyond the Netherlands. A wave of solidarity protests have taken place in recent weeks, from Germany to ...

Farmers are holding protests across Europe, ... Montoyer street is blocked by tractors during a farmers protest on February 1 in Brussels, ... Greece, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands. ...

Dutch farmers, though, would prefer to maintain the status quo. They've shut down the nation's highways with their tractors to protest the proposed nitrogen rules.

Between 1945 and today, the overall number of farmers in the Netherlands dropped from 400,000 to 54,000, but the size of remaining farms skyrocketed. In 1950, most dairy farms held only a dozen or ...

[1/3] Dutch farmers protest against government policies to limit nitrogen emissions in The Hague, Netherlands March 11, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch farmers protested government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions by dumping manure and garbage Wednesday on highways and setting fires alongside roads — the ...

A farmers' protest party shook up the political landscape in the Netherlands on Wednesday, emerging as the big winner in provincial elections that determine the make-up of the Senate.

In the Netherlands, another country beholden to EU bureaucrats, the Dutch government’s limitations on nitrogen emissions may result in the shutdown of approximately 3,000 farms.

Belgian farmers targeted border crossings with the Netherlands in Zandvliet, Meer and Postel, causing delays. In France, farmers blocked major highways leading to Paris as well as the cities of ...