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.
A few years ago, I though the Dutch were going to follow Britain’s example with Brexit. Perhaps, since it took their Prime Minister Theresa May years and years to get things moving, and even then, she still didn’t get it done, that may have taken the air out of the balloon of hopefullness.
Death’s the destination. Another monstrous crime against humanity.
This is DoublePlus Ungood.
The European Union is officially insane …They were “officially insane” even before they officially called themselves the European Union; the evidence has always been in plain view for anyone who bothered to look.
You will eat bugs and like it, comrades!
THIS IS UNFREAKIN REAL AND IT SCARES THE HE!! OUT OF ME.
Amsterdam has always been a LEADER IN DEPRAVITY, but they go too far.
Nothing like this better happen here..I’ll be on the front line PROTESTING.
How are you going to feed your gastarbeiders? No reason for them to stay. What will you do when they all go home?
Well, while we’re offering farm land to foreigners, they can come here as long as they promise not to vote for Democrats.
Shouldn't the EU be declared a terrorist organization?
How’s this positive thinking for ya … if climate change is really going to impact Mother Gaia, there will be another growing season for farmers to pick up the slack. If I were younger, I would really be looking forward to global warming. I won’t be around for its benefits.
Our Satanic “allies”. Coming here, guaranteed. Nat gas is already on the growing verboten list.
It’s a Satanic organization, a suicide/homicide pact. Most of the people living there are too stupid or zombified to notice or care.
I surmise that it’s a WEF/NWO test run and the same government crap will be forced in the US before long. If this US is to survive, the citizens had better start taking action to save it, once this country collapses, it’s not coming back.
This is sheer insanity.
I get my flower bulbs from Breck, in Holland.
Will the bulb farms be shut down also?
They’re on pace to make the old National Socialists look like amateurs.
The social unrest will become unbearable and you can forget about tourism in the future. This decision is apocalyptic for Holland. What will happen to your gastarbeiders?
Important question: Will there be enough beer? Start investing in the black market. How will you distill your jenever without fossil fuels? Will you start cooking on wood? Will your fishing fleet go out to produce zoute haring? Will you eat all your cattle garnished with tulip bulbs? Rotterdam will no longer be the largest harbor in Europe. What will happen to Pernis? Will your polders survive or will they disappear in the sea? Will you continue fighting the North Sea or will you give up?
Sigh and a tear.
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