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Farmers are bringing their tractors back to Brussels on Tuesday to protest EU regulations and falling profits while agricultural ministers meet to find a way to appease them. For weeks, angry farmers have been blockading roads and protesting in front of government offices across Europe, including the EU’s Brussels headquarters. Their actions are already having an effect, with the European Commission shelving a controversial fertilizer ban and proposing to loosen conditions to access subsidies from the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Farmers rely on CAP subsidies to stay afloat but pay…

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