Dutch farmers have described the first round of talks with Prime Minister Mark Rutte as disappointing, with some saying “stronger” action will follow the meeting.
On Friday, the first round of talks took place in Utrecht between major farming organisations, including the LTO, which represents around 35,000 farmers, and the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his chosen “mediator”, former deputy prime minister Johan Remkes.
Rutte apologized to farmers, according to public broadcaster RTV Drenthe for causing “a lot of confusion” over the so-called “nitrogen card”, outlining the areas that would have to stop farming as a result of the EU-based “wildlife protection” scheme that the Dutch government has used to justify plans to halve nitrogen emissions by 2030.
The plan could close up to 30 percent of farms, which some have claimed is nothing more than an attempt by the state to grab land that has been held in private ownership for generations.
Despite admitting the map drawn up by the government was inaccurate and led to “misunderstandings” among farmers, the globalist prime minister refused to back down from his 2030 agenda, much to the dismay of farm groups.
Rutte described the meeting as “an open conversation” that had shown “a lot of emotion and great concern”.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks to the media after a meeting with representatives of farmers’ organizations in Utrecht on August 5, 2022, about plans to reduce nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands by reducing livestock and closing some farms. – Netherlands OUT (Photo by JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
However, the farmers were more direct in sharing their disappointment about the meeting.
Bart Kemp, a farmer from Ede, he said regional public broadcaster Omroep Gelderlan that he expects a “beautiful, positive action” to take place on Saturday, saying: “There will be tractors and farmers handing out produce. And I expect there will be stronger actions as well.”
Mark van den Oever of the Farmers Defense Force said: “If I get a little taste of the mood, I think you can prepare for the most difficult actions that the FDF has ever taken… We are not going to dwell on it, but we are definitely going to escalate ».
Both before and post At Friday’s meeting, farmers were witnessed setting fire to hay bales on highways across the country, as well as dumping garbage on highways to serve as makeshift roadblocks. The protests, now in their third month, have seen farmers use tractors to block key infrastructure such as airports.
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Last week, a group of farmers blocked the entrance to a paper mill to protest against the seeming hypocrisy of the government’s nitrogen limits, given that the mill emits more nitrogen than any farm in the region, but there was no threat of closure to push green.
While the protests were disruptive, they were mostly peaceful. But police forces have been accused of being heavy-handed in their crackdown on farmers, with a teenage boy almost shot dead by a police officer last month for driving a tractor “threateningly”.
Last week, a group of officers in Almelo were filmed beating protesters with batons as they gathered to defend a mural outside the town hall that read “no farmers, no food”.
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