Wow
The European Union is officially insane.
The buyout scheme prohibits Dutch farmers from moving to other countries and starting up farms abroad, meaning that their knowledge and expertise would be lost.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 4, 2023
Posted on 05/04/2023 9:35:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow
The European Union is officially insane.
The buyout scheme prohibits Dutch farmers from moving to other countries and starting up farms abroad, meaning that their knowledge and expertise would be lost.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 4, 2023
With something this draconian, this beyond all comprehension, I guess “Wow” is about all you can say, huh?
Holy smokes.
The European Commission on Tuesday said it had approved two Dutch plans worth a combined 1.47 billion euros ($1.61 billion) to buy out livestock farmers to reduce nitrogen pollution, saying they are permissible under state aid rules.
The Dutch need to reduce excess nitrogen levels, caused in part by decades of intensive farming, a problem that has led to courts blocking important construction projects until the issue is resolved.
I mean, even Reuters is calling them “schemes.”
…In the schemes approved by the European Union’s executive body on Tuesday, the Netherlands reserved the money to compensate farmers who voluntarily close farms located near nature reserves.
And it is a “scheme” between the EU and the Dutch government, which knows it’s in real trouble with its citizens (witness the stunning farmers’ party gains in March) and had better ram this through before another election throws them out of power. Where the skullduggery and collusion comes in between the EU and Dutch government is the language in this agreement. The EU is allowing the Dutch to offer up to 120% of a farm’s value, an over-valuation that would normally be considered an “illegal government incentive.” They’ve come up with a semantics workaround or trade-off by demanding that farmers who take the “offer” then agree to be banned from farming forever in Europe. And the “voluntarily give up their farms” is a hoot because there’s no “voluntarily” about it. It’s an offer so good you can’t refuse because they are taking your farm, one way or the other.
Odd those particular details haven’t made any of the wire services reports.
The EU has given the Dutch government the green light to buy out 3000 #DutchFarmers offering them 120% of the market value, ‘incentivising’ them to sell ‘voluntary’ (if they don’t, they’ll be expropriated later).
Oh, and they won’t be allowed to start over elsewhere in the EU.
pic.twitter.com/iuj220PEjK— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) May 2, 2023
The situation is certainly grim, with all the forces of the WEF, EU, and government arrayed against the initial 3000 Dutch farmers slated to be eliminated.
…It forms part of the Hague’s wider strategy for slashing nitrogen emissions in half by 2030 to comply with EU targets.
On Tuesday, the European Commission approved the Dutch government’s proposals under the bloc’s state aid rules.
Brussels ruled that the buy-outs would not give farmers who receive them an unfair leg-up against international competitors on the Single Market and thus violate EU regulations.
Justifying the move earlier this year, Christianne van der Wal, minister of nature and nitrogen policy, said that the Netherlands had to cut nitrogen emissions from farms to build new housing and produce green energy.
“There will first have to be nitrogen cuts before there is room for new development such as new houses and sustainable energy investments. It is our economic lockdown,” she said.
“My message is not the message [farmers] want to hear.”
She has previously described the scheme as “wildly attractive”.
How does a once sovereign nation reach a point in self-abasement where it allows unelected bureaucrats in a building somewhere to dictate whether they can continue to be absolutely the most efficient and innovative providers of sustainable agriculture in the world? To be able to enforce punitive measures like building moratoriums if the Dutch don’t “comply”? How they allow some smug creature in an office to economically “lock-down” your country, while smugly dismissing the ghastly and devastating effects of imposing their climate insanity on your own citizens, without any push-back at all blows my mind.
Lapdogs. Globalist lapdogs.
EU approves Dutch plan to buy out farmers for 100-120% of what the gov't says farms are worth.
What will the farmers do then? Who will feed the Dutch?
Learning nothing from Sri Lanka, the EU goal is to cut fertilizer use 50% by 2030.
Disaster looms.
https://t.co/1l6mMod7Vu— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) May 3, 2023
Considering Dutch farmers produce and export far more than they consume, the short-sighted, arrogant diktats of the Brussels aristocrats seem incomprehensible and most assuredly ill-advised. You truly have to wonder if the EU commissioners have any notion of where Europe’s food comes from, less mind what feeds the rest of the world.
This exercise in the unbridled power of an unelected bureaucracy should chill every American to the bones. This is exactly where Democrats and Progressives are dragging us.
"Democracy is pretty much dead."@EvaVlaar on the EU overlords screwing over Dutch farmers.
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— Mark Steyn (@MarkSteynOnline) May 3, 2023
There might still be a chance of the people revolting. The wins of this past March do provide a ray of hope glimmering in the distance.
…“I also highly doubt that prohibiting them to start over elsewhere in the EU is even legal. The whole idea of the EU was supposed to be about freedom of movement and freedom of workers. This is some next-level USSR stuff,” [Eva] Vlaardingerbroek added.
The plan to shut down thousands of farms is by no means a done deal, however, given that it would need to be managed mostly at the provincial level. This may be complicated for the fledgling Rutte government as the upstart tractor protest backing Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) party not only became the single largest party in the Dutch Senate in March but also one of the largest parties at the provincial level where many of the farms are located.
There have also been some cracks within Rutte’s coalition, with the CDA party expressing doubt over the general nitrogen emission crackdown following the surprise victory of the BBB party.
Amazing how politicians are all about stomping all over people in the name of the latest idea until the people start stomping back and those cushy government jobs are threatened.
Ukrainians of the land, are fighting to recover their land, but are (or at least seem) to be unaware of how much they are surrendering their rights to their land, by the Ukraine government’s dealings with socialist suppliers of armaments who require that Ukraine be progressive and financially in debt to Big EU.
That is one reason why I favor Ukraine holding on to what it has, now, and not surrendering any more to the east nor to the west.
Electricity Comes from Walls
Food Comes from Shelves
It has already surrendered to the west. What rock have you been under?
People here on this site have been saying that no matter who “wins” in Ukraine, they won’t have freedom. The west is not fighting for freedom. They want to enslave people.
Are you there? Our only son has gone off the rails and is engaged to a Dutch girl. He doesn’t speak the language.
I know I will have to retrieve him at some point because he can’t get a job.
May see you then.
“Welcome to the Party.”
this is exceedingly wicked
I reckon the vax is not killing people off fast enough
farmers are generally very conservative people
but we do have this little election integrity problem here
That’s insanity. Government doesn’t have a free food machine. Food has to be produced by hard-working individuals.
The EU was a stupid idea from the start.
Instead of banning farmers and making them never farm again we should take the same approach with -
Politicians
Climate “scientists”
Lawyers except Steven Miller
Transgender clinics
DEI professionals
Gender studies professors….
Don’t be surprised if someone like Putin doesn’t offer these Dutch farmers a sweetheart deal to simply move their enterprise and their knowledge. Eastward. After all, there’s plenty of available farmland there.
If we were smart that’s exactly what we would be doing. No, not the federal government but a pretty smart state governor
This is the modern adaptation of Stalin and Mao’s methods of starving the peasants, who were the most traditional people.
Time to leave the EU!
" The European Commission on Tuesday said it had approved two Dutch plans worth a combined 1.47 billion euros ($1.61 billion) to buy out livestock farmers
to reduce nitrogen pollution, saying they are permissible under state aid rules.
"The Dutch need to reduce excess nitrogen levels, caused in part by decades of intensive farming, a problem that has led to courts blocking important construction projects until the issue is resolved. "
"I mean, even Reuters is calling them “schemes.”
…In the schemes approved by the European Union’s executive body on Tuesday, the Netherlands reserved the money to compensate farmers
who voluntarily close farms located near nature reserves."
"And it is a “scheme” between the EU and the Dutch government, which knows it’s in real trouble with its citizens
(witness the stunning farmers’ party gains in March) and had better ram this through before another election throws them out of power.
Where the skullduggery and collusion comes in between the EU and Dutch government is the language in this agreement."
"The EU is allowing the Dutch to offer up to 120% of a farm’s value, an over-valuation that would normally be considered an “illegal government incentive.”
They’ve come up with a semantics workaround or trade-off by demanding that farmers who take the “offer” then agree to be banned from farming forever in Europe.
And the “voluntarily give up their farms” is a hoot because there’s no “voluntarily” about it.
It’s an offer so good you can’t refuse because they are taking your farm, one way or the other."
Odd those particular details haven’t made any of the wire services reports"
" This may be complicated for the fledgling Rutte government as the upstart tractor protest backing Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) party
"There have also been some cracks within Rutte’s coalition, with the CDA party expressing doubt over the general nitrogen emission crackdown
following the surprise victory of the BBB party."
The Dutch will still eat. Sweden, however, will not.
... and they will not start the same breeding activity in the Netherlands or the EU.
= = =
This should apply to ‘migrants’, not farmers!
Coming soon to a farm near you.
not just death, but they are going to get a visit from all of The Four Horsemen.
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