After tens of thousands of farmers in Baden-Württemberg protested against the federal government's austerity plans on Monday, Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann is amazed at the severity of the protests shown. The Green politician said on Tuesday in Stuttgart that he was surprised that farmers had not responded to the federal government's concessions. “It is an unusual step that the federal government has scaled back its plans to a very significant extent.”
Kretschmann spoke of a ““significant softening” of the original resolutions. Compromises had to be made. Kretschmann does not believe that the federal government will meet the farmers' demand for a complete withdrawal of the planned cuts. “I don't see that the federal government will take any further steps.“
The farmers' protests are directed against the traffic light government's plans to phase out the tax break for agricultural diesel. The subsidy is to be phased out gradually and will no longer be paid at all from 2026. Another proposal to overturn the tax exemption for agricultural machinery has now been taken off the table.
According to the Interior Ministry, farmers demonstrated with around 33,000 vehicles in 389 actions on Monday. The protests were largely peaceful and trouble-free. In isolated cases there were blockades in which, in addition to agricultural vehicles, construction containers, bales of straw and piles of manure were used. There were severe traffic disruptions on many roads across the country.
He also showed himself worried that demonstrations are becoming more and more radical become. “I am personally worried that militancy is increasing,” said Kretschmann in Stuttgart. “If you demonstrate with heavy equipment, that raises questions for the state. “You have to think about how to deal with it. He doesn't have any answers to these questions yet, but he's currently working on them.
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