Farmers protest violence condemned, but four provinces cave in to demands

Farmer’s lobby group LTO Noord has told website Nu.nl that it will not suspend the farmers involved in a couple of violent incidents during Monday’s protests about nitrogen-based pollution. Convoys of tractors had converged on eight provincial government buildings on Monday in a coordinated protest about new limits imposed on farmers while national government decides how to tackle the problem. In Groningen, farmers used a tractor to break down the door to the provincial council offices. In a second, a...