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The second happening is in Germany.
Farmers out on the streets and roads demonstrating, and preparing the largest protest since forever on January 15th.
The direct spark for the events is the (planned?) abolishment of the agrarian subsidies, along with the diesel subsidy for farmers. Their chief source of discontent is that the Red-Yellow-Green coalition commits agricultural suicide. The stuff below I heard in a radio interview so can't really give a source. I might try to find a webpage that represents the opinions and grievances of the German farmers.
So.
They say the 70% of Germans live in the countryside but life there is frowned upon and country living is made worse and untenable (citing that all the services are closing, no pubs, shops, and even ATMs...).
Agriculture is still among the largest employers of Germany. Tho the wages are fairly low.
They have to abide more and more regulations. And they get more nonsensical. Recently the German govt. regulated the use of fertilizers in some areas they are forbidden to use enough for the need of the crops, so they reached a point when wheat started to lack so much proteins it cannot baked into a bread!
The current government has a Green agrarian minister who hates agriculture and blames agriculture for climate change. Essentially now they do everything to prevent German agriculture to be working.
Despite all the regulations on the home front, Germany imports more and more agricultural products, South America, and in particular Brazil was named, as the main source of corn - which is treated with chemicals that are banned in the EU and Germany for 2-3 decades now. Replying to a question the interviewee said that last year Germany bought record amount of grain from Ukraine, again treated with chemicals that are banned. Among these circumstances the German farmers can't hold against the competition.
I have to ask. Greens are complaining about the loss of rainforests in Brazil, if they ramp up imports from there, that encourages deforestation. How is this a greener solution than producing locally?
At the moment I couldn't find a good source on the internet, just this:
https://lsvdeutschland.de/
The spokesman of this organization, Anthony Robert Lee was the interviewee. Despite his Anglo name, he spoke German.