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Bart Dochy looks through accounting books and logs entries on his computer at his family farm in Ledegem, Belgium, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Fickle regulations are a key complaint heard from European farmers protesting over the past weeks, setting up a key theme for the upcoming June 6-9 parliamentary elections in the 27-nation European Union. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Hard work and too many statistics: An EU farmer's frustration grows with every click of the mouse
By RAF CASERT - Associated Press
Wed,02/14/24-11:19PM , 66 Reads
LEDEGEM, Belgium (AP) — On a farm in northern Belgium, not far from the hundreds of tractors blocking Europe's second-biggest port to demand more respect for farmers, Bart Dochy was switching on his computer, waiting for a government program to load with maps of his land next to empty digital boxes demanding to be filled with statistics on ferti
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Farmers lit fires outside the European Parliament building in Brussels on Thursday as a part of ongoing protests over excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy. The complaints were set to be heard by EU leaders at a summit later in the day, in a venue separate from where the protest was taking place. Demonstrators lit hay on fire, as firefighters attempted to douse the flames. The farmers entered the Belgian capital with the rumble of engines, firecrackers and blaring horns. (Feb. 1 - AP Video by Sylvain Plazy)

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Farmers create chaos outside an EU summit and wrest some promises of relief
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Thu,02/01/24-1:24AM , 68 Reads
BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers burned bales of hay, threw eggs and firecrackers at police — and wrested some promises of relief from European leaders on Thursday, the culmination of weeks of protests across the continent over excessive red tape
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AP's Chief Correspondent in Paris John Leicester explains why French farmers are protesting, using a large number of tractors to barricade highways travelling into Paris. (Jan. 30)

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Why European Union officials are taking angry farmers so seriously before Thursday's summit
By RAF CASERT - Associated Press
Wed,01/31/24-9:44AM , 83 Reads
HALLE, Belgium (AP) — The writing of angry farmers was on the Paris-to-Brussels highway in giant yellow letters visible from up high: “Ursula, We are here!”
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Tractors face military vehicles on a blocked highway, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. Protesters say it's becoming harder than ever to make a decent living from their fields, greenhouses and herds. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions
By RAF CASERT - Associated Press
Wed,01/31/24-2:16AM , 70 Reads
HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Farmers blocked more traffic arteries across Belgium, France and Italy on Wednesday, as they sought to disrupt trade at major ports and other economic lifelines.
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