As of: January 26, 2024, 4:39 p.m
By: Sabine Fleischer
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Put his finger in the wound of federal agricultural policy: Vice Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger received a standing ovation from the farmers present in the Hochlandhalle Weilheim for his speech at the in-house farmers' demonstration.
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Weilheim - “Together reaching the goal – now we can move on”: The farming district associations of Weilheim-Schongau, Starnberg and Garmisch-Partenkirchen invited people to the Hochlandhalle in Weilheim on Friday, January 26th - with support from the state parliament by Hubert Aiwanger and Petra Högl.
The topic: show the (agricultural) flag to Berlin and demand real farmer discussions.
For fairness, equality, respect and togetherness.
“It's not just about vehicle tax and agricultural diesel - it's about our future.” The first words of BBV Weilheim district chairman Wolfgang Scholz were spoken to the almost 500 people present at today's in-house demonstration by the Bavarian Farmers' Association in the Hochlandhalle Weilheim the heart.
The motto of the event: continue to show your presence - make demands on the traffic light government.
Of course, political celebrities are also there.
Above all, Bavaria's Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (FW) - who was welcomed with a birthday serenade - as well as state parliament member and agricultural policy spokeswoman for the CSU state parliamentary group Petra Högl.
As a supporter of the farmers' demonstrations, FW state parliament member Susann Enders was also among the spectators.
Like Aiwanger, she also spent her last birthday at a BBV event: “That’s what we’re both passionate about.”
Heavyweight agriculture
“We are the economy, namely agriculture, on which many industries depend,” BBV district chairman Klaus Solleder (GAP) explained the important position of the farmers.
State farmer Christine Singer agreed that one in seven jobs depend on agriculture.
Hence the urgent appeal to the government to reduce bureaucracy, have more discussions on equal terms and not to disadvantage rural areas.
“It cannot be the case that here in the Garmisch district we have to pay 1.80 euros for a liter of diesel, while in Munich you can fill up for 1.60 euros,” said Solleder.
“That’s not how you treat each other”
Petra Högl - also deputy chairwoman of the state parliament's committee for food, agriculture, forestry and tourism - shot sharply against the traffic lights: “The government in Berlin makes its policy on the 'systemically important' farmers' back.
This is not how we treat each other.” She is extremely disappointed with how arrogantly Berlin is governed.
A policy against agriculture, gastronomy and the middle class - against the democratic center of Germany.
She also had specific demands on “the three Mr. Scholz, Habeck and Lindner”: no four percent set-aside, no additional requirements when it comes to manure regulations, no complicated EU directives as a result of the CAP 2023 (editor’s note: partnership between society and Agriculture that ensures a secure food supply, sufficient income for farmers, protection of the environment and dynamic rural regions).
Instead, she called for “a practical council for politics”.
So that regulations such as “a ban on rolling from March 15th” could be practically questioned as to what this means for the foothills of the Alps.
“We still have snow,” said Solleder, emphasizing the absurdity of some political decisions to loud laughter from the audience.
Högl: “You provide our food.” The federal government must deal with farmers fairly, on an equal footing, with respect and in cooperation.
Otherwise, at some point there would be no more farmers because everyone would have stopped doing the hard work on the land.
“You are not the ones who strike for 35 hours.
Thanks for being uncomfortable.”
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Big applause for Aiwanger
Hubert Aiwanger received a standing ovation with his fiery speech against the traffic light policy with its “disdain for agriculture and green ideology”.
It can't be the case that the only choice “the federal government gives us is: I'll stop!” The German agricultural regulations are restricting farmers and preventing them from being able to compete on the international market.
“Do we want there to be no more farmers here and everything has to be imported?” This would be doing a disservice to animal welfare and climate protection.
“The pigs from China are definitely not produced under animal welfare guidelines.
When it comes to imported food, we have no control over it – neither on quality nor on animal welfare.
That can’t be in the spirit of green politics!”
Position paper from the BBV district associations STA, WM-SOG and GAP: State farmer Christine Singer (2nd from left), Hubert Aiwanger and MdL Petra Högl (3rd from right) received the written opinion of the Bavarian farmers from the region from BBV district chairman Georg Holzer ( l.), Wolfgang Scholz (2nd from right) and Klaus Solleder (r.).
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The Vice Prime Minister also took a hard line with the traffic lights when it came to the topics of manure regulations, tethering, forest set-aside, biodiesel taxation and wolf regulations.
Berlin would need “tutoring from the farmers” so that Germany would remain the cultivated country it is now.
And he warned of farms dying out as a result of the current agricultural policy and the high inheritance tax.
“If our refrigerator and the farmhouses remain empty, there will be a lot of complaining in Berlin.
If only we had sided with the farmers!”
The demand for federal politicians to listen more to farmers was also the final sentence from organizer BBV district chairman Georg Holzer (STA) at the end of the “demo”: “Why do the traffic lights dictate so much to us farmers?
As those who provide the most master craftsmen in Germany, we probably have enough expertise when it comes to agriculture!”