European farmers’ protests spread to Spain and Portugal
| With the continuation of protests by farmers in European countries against the laws and policies of governments, Spanish farmers also announced their plan for demonstrations in February. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, Spanish farmers’ trade unions announced on Tuesday their plan for demonstrations in February in protest against restrictive and strict European agricultural laws and the lack of support from the Madrid government.
According to “Reuters” news agency, the three major trade unions of Spanish farmers, stressing that their complaints are the same as those of protesting farmers in other European countries, said that the environmental laws imposed by Brussels have weakened profitability. Cereals and food prices have increased.
The increasing drought in recent years in Spain has also hit the farmers of this country and has reduced the production of products such as rice and olives in the last two years.
Pedro Barrato, head of the agricultural trade union “Asaxa” in Spain, which represents about 200,000 Spanish farmers and livestock breeders, said in a radio interview: “The mobilization of farmers for demonstrations will be done as soon as possible. “
These unions announced in a joint statement that the protests of the Spanish farmers will be held in the coming weeks, and the members of the “Asakha” union will hold a meeting on Thursday of this week to prepare for these demonstrations. Kurd.
A trade union of Portuguese farmers called “National Confederation of Agriculture”, which represents farmers of small and medium farms, also announced that protesting farmers in this country started protests and slow marches. There will be other protest events, but the dates of these events have not yet been decided.
According to Reuters news agency, as the protests of protesting farmers in France are also intensifying, reports indicate that about 20,000 people are facing problems. The Spanish trucks that cross the French border every day are for the transportation of fruit, vegetables and other goods. Inside France, Spanish companies are losing 10 million euros a day.
Spanish farmers say they are at a loss in competition with cheaper imported products from outside the European Union.
Spanish organizations plan to ask Brussels to stop its negotiations with the Mercosur trade bloc, as well as trade agreements with Chile, Kenya, Mexico, India and Australia.
In recent days, in addition to France, protesting farmers have demonstrated in Belgium, Germany, Poland and Romania against the unfair policies of Europe and the governments of these countries in the field of agriculture.
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