BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s agriculture minister on Friday criticized a mob that tried to intimidate the economy minister over subsidy cuts for farmers and vowed that the government would make no more concessions on the issue despite plans for nationwide rallies next week. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition watered down plans to cut agriculture subsidies as part of its 2024 budget on Thursday after hundreds of farmers protested in central Berlin last month against the prospect of losing the tax break entirely. But the diluted plans, which the president of the German Farmers’ Association said did not go far enough, prompted demonstrators to block Economy Minister Robert Habeck from disembarking from a ferry in northern Germany on Thursday night. Videos of…
