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2024-01-09 08:25:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 43E41E07D78F17C5BBCC77EB77C148726575F59410634164FE3F254D20B507E6
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This is false. Subsidies for farmers have not ended in Germany. The current protests are about a tax break on diesel expiring. Germany faces a 60 billion Euro hole in its household that is due to its constitutional debt brake, not Ukraine, on which German spends way less. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-farmers-block-roads-highway-ramps-protest-subsidy-cuts-2024-01-08/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/special-funds-how-germany-gets-round-debt-brake-2023-11-17/#:~:text=Germany's%20constitutional%20court%20ruled%20on,off%2Dthe%2Dbudget%20funds.
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