Dutch News
June 29, 2023
Farmers have defied an order to keep their tractors off the motorways as they head towards The Hague to protest against the government’s nitrogen reduction plans.
Organisation Farmers Defence Force, which last year brought motorways to a standstill, blockaded supermarkets and dumped farm waste on roads, said it expected thousands of its members to converge on the city on Thursday.
Mayor Jan van Zanen issued an emergency order just after 7am banning tractors from the city centre, but police are expecting hundreds of vehicles to arrive for an unofficial protest.