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How the ‘green’ EU starves the world

5 July 2022

2:47 PM

5 July 2022

2:47 PM

There’s a food crisis brewing, but you wouldn’t know it with the way the European bureaucracy is behaving.

Dutch farmers – who sit as the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world and largest meat exporter in Europe – have brought the Netherlands to a standstill, protesting against Climate Change regulations.

The newly elected government has set up a 55-60 per cent emissions goal by 2030, 70 per cent by 2035, and 80 per cent at 2040.

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