Legal Insurrection readers may recall our overage of the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands last year. The movement was so successful that the Boer-Burger Beweging (BBB), or Farmer-Citizen Movement, became the largest party in the country’s senate, winning more seats than Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling conservative VVD party.

German officials may want to take note of this development. Two weeks ago, German farmers organized a massive protest against the government’s plans to cut diesel subsidies and tax breaks for agricultural vehicles next year as part of Berlin’s 2024 austerity measures.

After a constitutional court ruling last month that cancelled 60 billion euros of earmarked debt, the federal government last week announced plans to save around 900 million euros ($983.34 million) annually in subsidies for farmers.