Brussels Backs Forced Buyouts of Dutch Farmers

The Dutch government’s long-running emissions dispute with farmers looks set to escalate. The European Commission announced that it will back plans for potential compulsory purchase orders set to impact up to 3,000 high-polluting farms.

The decision paves the way for the forced buyouts of farms, a prospect long feared by campaigners, and sets the stage for a standoff between the central government and regional parliaments controlled by agrarian populists in the wake of recent elections. ---More...

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