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The leader of the German Farmers’ Association has threatened further protests from Monday if government plans to cut agricultural subsidies for diesel fuel are not reversed. “We don’t even need to ask the farmers. They keep calling and asking: ‘Is anything moving? If nothing moves, we’ll take to the streets again,” Joachim Rukwied said on Thursday, ahead of a key government budget committee meeting scheduled for the evening. The conflict over government plans to phase out the fuel subsidy for the agricultural sector has also overshadowed the annual week-long Green Week agricultural trade fair …

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