At the beginning of the year, farmers’ protests shook Germany. The background was the planned abolition of subsidies for agricultural diesel. Now there is compensation.
The traffic light coalition has agreed on a relief package for agriculture. The leaders of the SPD, Greens and FDP announced this on Tuesday in Berlin. This includes tax relief, less bureaucracy and a stronger position for farmers in the chain up to the retail trade. Implementation is now the responsibility of the federal and state governments. Some of the relief measures are to be passed in the Bundestag next week.
The coalition had announced that it would adopt measures to ease the burden on farmers by the summer. The aim was to strengthen the future security of agriculture. The background to this was widespread protests by farmers against the gradual abolition of tax breaks for agricultural diesel.
Farmers’ protest has an impact
FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr said that farmers had rightly expressed their discontent at the beginning of the year. “As a coalition, we have agreed to launch a major relief package for farmers.”
Source: Stern
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