1000’s of farmers and different anti-establishment demonstrators have protested in a park in The Hague in opposition to Dutch authorities plans to scale back nitrate emissions whereas elsewhere within the metropolis local weather activists indignant at what they name state assist for the fossil gas business broke by means of police strains to dam a significant street.
The simultaneous demonstrations – a number of kilometers from one another – come days earlier than Dutch voters go to the polls in provincial elections on Wednesday that not directly additionally elect the parliament’s higher home and will affect proposals for lowering nitrate air pollution.

