Image Firefighters in July along a highway in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, after farmers set fire to manure and hay bales to protest the government’s nitrogen policy.Credit...News United/EPA ...

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 ...

Farmers in the Netherlands have formed their own version of Canada’s "Freedom Convoy," blocking highways with tractors, setting bales of hay on fire and taking other actions to protest the ...

LEIDEN, 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.

The Netherlands’ intensive livestock farming ... as MPs are debating the cabinet's nitrogen plans during a farmers' protest against the cabinet's proposed nitrogen policy in the Hague, on ...

In response to a court ruling, the Dutch government announced in 2022 that it would aim to halve emissions of nitrogen from livestock like cows, pigs, and chickens. The announcement enraged ...

Thousands of farmers gathered in the central Netherlands on Wednesday to protest the Dutch government’s plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia. They drove their tractors across ...

Belgian farmers targeted border crossings with the Netherlands in Zandvliet ... with up to 2,000 tractors registered for each protest. The protests echo those of last year, when farmers ...

AMSTERDAM, March 15 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Only 25% of Irish farmers in the survey said they participated in last year’s protests, the lowest proportion of the nine countries surveyed ...