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In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat's lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides. Other farmers in the French southwest, where a nationwide movement started, complain about red tape and restrictions on water usage, as well as competition from Ukrainian imports let into the European Union to help its economy during the war. Farmers elsewhere in Europe are similarly disgruntled, with protests in Germany, Poland, Romania and Belgium coming after a new farmers&...

Poland's president opted to sign the country's budget but send it to a top court to check it was in line with the constitution, his office said on Wednesday, in a move likely to exacerbate... -January 31, 2024 at 02:01 pm EST - MarketScreener

Poland's president opted to sign the country's budget but send it to a top court to check it was in line with the constitution, his office said on Wednesday, in a move likely to exacerbate tensions with a new government from an opposing political camp. Poland's pro-European coalition government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to revert changes introduced by the former nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) administration which caused a conflict with the European Union over the rule of law. However, it faces resistance from allies of the former ruling party who remain...

Poland's cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law to restore prescription-free emergency contraception, reversing a restriction introduced by the previous nationalist government in 2017 and... -January 24, 2024 at 08:18 am EST - MarketScreener

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday pardoned two members of the former government, who were then released from prison at his urging, in line with demands from the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party that lost power last month. Former interior minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wasik were released after 9 p.m. local time. Both men went on hunger strike, claiming to be "political prisoners", and their jailing triggered large protests by tens of thousands of PiS supporters.