Demonstrations of protesting farmers across Spain
Protesting Spanish farmers formed caravans to protest the country's government policies in the field of agriculture by driving their tractors on the roads. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, on Tuesday, protesting Spanish farmers with their tractors demonstrated in different cities of this country in protest against cumbersome European laws, low prices of products and increase in their costs.
Dozens of these protesters organized a rally with a tractor in the city of “Vitoria” in northern Spain and in this rally displayed various slogans on placards; Slogans such as: “Without agriculture and farmers, you will not eat food”.
According to the news agency “Reuters”, previously the largest trade union of Spanish farmers and several other unions to hold a large demonstration on Thursday. They had called, but a large number of farmers came to the roads with tractors on Tuesday and by forming protest convoys, they blocked the traffic of cars throughout the country from the cities of “Seville” and “Granada” in the south to the city of “Girona” near the French border. They stopped.
Spanish farmers, like their counterparts in France, Belgium, Italy and Portugal, protested and emphasized the problems caused by cumbersome European laws, low product prices and rising costs. that the European Union has imposed on farmers in order to protect the environment has caused them to lose their competitive advantage against farmers in other regions such as Latin America and European countries outside the European Union.
Farmers’ demonstrations protesting the policies of governments and the European Union, which started a few weeks ago, especially in Germany and France, are spreading to other countries of this union such as Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
On Monday, Italian farmers also started a demonstration by leaving with tractors from different parts of the country towards the capital city, Rome.
In recent days, the intensity of protesting farmers’ demonstrations in France And Germany was more than other parts of Europe, but now the demonstrations in these two countries have subsided and it seems that farmers’ protests are intensifying in other parts of the European Union. The protesting farmers also blocked the road crossing the Belgium-Netherlands border crossing between the cities of Maastricht and Liège again on Monday. forced Europe to propose restrictions on agricultural imports from Ukraine.
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