Nine in ten EU farmers dissatisfied with political response to protests, survey shows

Only 25% of Irish farmers in the survey said they participated in last year’s protests, the lowest proportion of the nine countries surveyed

Irish farmers demonstrating in February 2024 in solidarity with protesting EU farmers. File photo: Press 22

The unhappiness that drove hundreds of thousands of protesting EU farmers onto the streets a year and a half ago has not gone away.

But fewer than one in five said there was a meaningful response to their protests in agricultural policies or financial support, in a recent survey of 2,000 EU farmers.