e.u. agricultural funds. farmer your i bet ash was badly beaten up along this track he brought the printed smartphone pictures with him as evidence a competitor sent a group of armed thugs cut down his rapeseed and drove the fifty eight year old off the land he had leased state owned fields he'd farmed for decades his rival obviously had good connections to the local authorities his leasehold was canceled from one day to the next and transferred to his attacker there's a lot of money at stake. they were only interested in getting their hands on the e.u. subsidies. better ashe says organized crime gangs in eastern slovakia are taking over huge areas of arable land to become eligible for millions of euros in e.u. subsidies every year he says he knows of thirty other farmers who contribute away by violence and blackmail so far your i paresh is the only one brave enough to come forward and talk about it publicly the police and justice ministry have been informed but slovakian authorities remain unresponsive. who

e.u. agricultural funds we have this exclusive report. farmer your i bet ash was badly beaten up along the stracke he brought the printed smartphone pictures with him as evidence a competitor sent a group of armed thugs cut down his rapeseed and drove the fifty eight year old off the land he had leased state owned fields he'd farmed for decades his rival obviously had good connections to the local authorities his leasehold was canceled from one day to the next and transferred to his attacker there's a lot of money at stake. we're only interested in getting their hands on the e.u. subsidies. better ash says organized crime gangs in eastern slovakia are taking over huge areas of arable land to become eligible for millions of euros in e.u. subsidies every year he says he knows of thirty other farmers who contribute away by violence and blackmail so far you're right paresh is the only one brave enough to come forward and talk about it publicly the police and justice ministry have been informed but slovakian authorities remain unresponsive. go

e.u. commission of course intending to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted divest additional assets as part of the deal it will now go smoothly they make a deal will be the biggest have a takeover of a u.s. company by a german one. and we can bring in our financial correspondent daniel cope who's following the story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel that final green light from across the atlantic appearing to seal the deal how are investors taking that piece of news in fact very positive had another merger has been taking a longer than expected and even though some investors still fear that this merger the biggest by the way in german history even for a company like buyer could be too big too risky already last night on wall street during the after our trading shares of buyout jumped higher plans of two point one percent want some top shares jumped even higher to one hundred twenty five dollars will continue because of the delay the buy a shares did not really go well so far th

e.u. commission by tends to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal before now goes smoothly the mega deal will be the biggest ever take over all of a u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel so this merger appears to finally have the green light all round despite so many concerns. yeah exactly it seems that the merger is finally now a done deal we're still waiting though for the official confirmation and yes there have been many concerns mostly many feel that by i will from now on some even say an absolute monopoly in this area so until the very end it was not clear if the merger. would get the approval from the u.s. and also e.u. authorities this was very frustrating also for shareholders because of all this issue the merger has been taking much longer than origin lee planned also a buyer had to make quite some concessions some of their division had to be sold through the s. f. here in germany so far the merger has been mostly one thing for buy

e.u. commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal a full now goes smoothly mega deal will be the biggest ever taken all the u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel the merger appears to finally have the green light despite many concerns. yes exactly where and there are still are lots of concerns because we have to face as with this merger by our monsanto we'll have a mano paly position that is the reason why until the very end approvals from the us and also e.u. authorities were pending and monsanto has said in the past that their version at least with this merger they will play a major role to make sure to meet the rising demand for food in the future others see all of this very different mostly farmers are concerned their fear that their seed cause go up dramatically and yes the market is not very big by monsanto doudou pong and champ china those are the global players they will control more than seventy percent of the global

e.u. commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural giant for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted the buyer divest additional assets is part of the deal that if all now goes smoothly the make a deal will be the biggest ever take of all the u.s. company by a german one. and we can bring in our financial correspondent daniel corp who's following the story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel that final green light from across the atlantic appearing to seal the deal how are investors taking that piece of. in fact very positive had another merger has been taking longer than expected and even though some investors still fear the merger the biggest by the way in german history even for a company like buyer could be too big too risky already last night on wall street during the after our trading shares of buyout jumped higher class of two point one percent monsanto shares jumped even higher to one hundred twenty five dollars that's a class of six percent also here in frankfurt by a shares are the number one here at the dax they are up with almost five p

e.u. a session before. it and post a session by the common agricultural policy meir put him. this is trying to mobilize opposition to this ecologically controversial approach whereby agricultural companies work the land rather than farm this. but land grabbing by new investors is happening at a rapid pace. it's often unclear who's acquiring land. grabbers or various entities. who are dutch pension funds and the share of shakes and rest their money and holdings and of course simple smart individuals so. there's one common denominator they all share they are all unscrupulous and have no values no moral. terrorist fields shrubs bushes and even springs are being plowed over. and the resulting fields rapeseed all maize is grown primarily for the production of biofuel monoculture is replacing diversity. here. so. what are you doing. coloring the basement smith's organic farmer paul who wanted to live out history here and practice a stable agriculture but then another investor came from germany came and purchased . money doesn't matter you can do it i must point of. course i mean he

brazil is one of the most important agricultural markets in the world just to e.u. to be an insignificant small town five hundred kilometers south of the capital brasilia but it has flourished since the early one nine hundred ninety s. when soybean and corn were planted here on a large scale. state of the art technology from buyer and monsanto is expected to further increase eels. a small team of agronomists from south hollow travels across the country to inspect the fields on behalf of the farmers. the future is here it says on their car in the trunk is a drone which the team assembles in a few minutes. the use the drone to fly over the newly harvested corn fields in search of we see. what looks like a toy is actually high tech equipment. with. controlled high resolution cameras. might just be this drone is mapping the total area of the field. that's why it has to fly. through your own water copter flies lower. to complement each other. in the post processing phase a map is created that faithfully reproduces the ground to scale the grid so three by three meters tha

escalates more retaliatory tarps including american agricultural exports beijing takes the dispute so the world trade organization. and how billions of euros in e.u. funds end up in criminal hands in slovakia. i've been physical and let's do business president donald trump says his country's notion in a trade war with china that war was lost many years ago by the. foolish or incompetent people who represented the u.s. well whatever you call this trump is doing his best to stop tensions announcing new duties on a whole range of prized chinese tech products beijing has retaliated. china has launched rockets and built high speed trains the chinese economy has been booming so much that it can counter the u.s. threat of punitive tariffs china is not about to take a trade dispute with a us lying down we will take corresponding measures of equal intensity against u.s. products according to chinese foreign trade low which will be announced in the near future we have the confidence and ability to respond to any protectionist measures . the tit for tat is now in full effect beijing plans to match washington's fifty billion dollars in tariffs with tariffs o

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industrial products this deals with agricultural products as you said this is also symbolic though but of course mexico needs more than a free trade agreement with the e.u. because of the outsized role the u.s. plays in its trade so it's going to have to go a little bit further but this is something that's very symbolic about the meaning of free trade and the value of free trade to both countries germany and mexico seem to have a fair a circus in the latest in industrial technology but i'm american said today german companies have quite some catching up to do when it comes to areas like artificial intelligence intelligence buys that. you know that's a widely held view here not just among the american but also among businesses and analysts who are looking at this obviously one of the reasons there are several reasons for this one of the reasons it's widely seen is that germany is very successful with its small and mid-size manufacturing businesses it has a very strong strong industrial economy based on these businesses that would probably rather stay doing what they're doing than trying to sort of innovate with something like artificial intelligence and

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industrial products this deals with agricultural products as you said this is also symbolic though but of course mexico needs more than a free trade agreement with the e.u. because of the outsized role the u.s. plays in its trade so it's going to have to go a bit further but this is something that's very symbolic about the meaning of free trade and the value of free trade to both countries germany and mexico. seem to have affairs showcasing the latest in industrial technology but i'm american said today german companies have quite some catching up to do when it comes to areas like artificial intelligence intelligence buys that. you know that's a widely held view here not just among the market but also among businesses and analysts who are looking at this obviously one of the reasons there are several reasons for this one of the reasons it's widely seen is that germany is very successful with its small and mid-sized manufacturing businesses it has a very strong strong industrial economy based on these businesses that would probably rather stay doing what they're doing than trying to sort of innovate with something like artificial intelligence and moving