The agricultural demonstration scheduled to take place in Brussels on December 13 and 14 has been cancelled. The protest involving tractors was planned to coincide with the EU Agriculture Council meeting of ministers but has now been called off due to the resurging COVID-19 pandemic. This was announced by the German organization Land schafft Verbindung (LsV).
Instead, LSV-D is calling for ideas for alternative actions. The now cancelled demonstration in Brussels was organized by activist agricultural groups from several EU countries, including Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
The European umbrella organizations of farmers’ associations (COPA) and rural cooperatives (COGECA) were not involved in planning the protest. National umbrella organizations such as the DBV and the LTO had also distanced themselves from it.
Although the European umbrella organization European Milk Board (EMB) had announced its participation, the German Bund Deutscher Milchviehhalter (BDM) had cancelled its involvement in advance.
The BDM referenced ongoing criticism from FDF and LsV towards the Green Deal and the farm-to-fork strategy. Representatives from the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) also expressed criticism of the demonstration according to Agrarheute.com.