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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A senator for the farmers’ party BBB has defected to the progressive liberal group D66 in protest over the coalition’s stance ...

In the Netherlands ... have risen up in protest. Although the reasons for the protests vary, they all have one thing in common: farmers are being targeted by their governments, often to push ...

AMSTERDAM, March 11 (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Dutch farmers protested in The Hague ... blocked a major thoroughfare in an unauthorised protest against tax rules they say encourage the use ...