Angry farmers took to the streets in England and Spain

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “NTV”, the protests of angry European farmers in different countries against the policies of the European Union and the government continue, and these protests were held in Spain and England yesterday and led to disturbances.

In Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, farmers with heavy tractors blocked the most important road to France for the second day in a row. North of Girona, they dumped earthen embankments on the road and emptied large tractor tires and thick tree trunks, as shown in images from the RTVE TV channel. Trucks carrying tomatoes from Morocco to France and other northern European customers had left the AP-7 highway the day before. Angry Spanish farmers threw these loads into the streets in protest. A parallel alternate route, National Road II was also blocked. In the west of the country near Lida, farmers blocked an important west-east connection, the AP-2 highway.

Farmers’ spokesmen on RTVE warned that until politicians Do not respond to their demands, this action will continue. After weeks of nationwide protests by farmers, Spain’s agriculture minister and farmers’ associations have now scheduled the next round of talks for next Tuesday.

Spanish farmers are demanding support against Unfair imports from countries with low environmental regulations outside the EU, less bureaucracy and financial aid are due to the drought that Catalonia is particularly suffering from. Catalonia’s regional government declared a water emergency in early February after 40 months of low rainfall in the region and limited use. Farmers who are forced to cut their consumption by 80% will be hit hard.

Protesting farmers in the British part of Wales also took to the streets. Thousands of people demonstrated outside the regional parliament in Cardiff, Sanand, against possible new environmental regulations. The Welsh government is considering the conditions for funding. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticized these plans and said: “In Wales, this party It is not his Conservatives who govern, but the Social Democratic Labor Party. According to the BBC, Sonak said that these plans put thousands of jobs and food sources at risk.

Protests by angry farmers continue in many European countries And it has led to disturbances and conflicts.

These protests are also held in Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy, France, Hungary and Belgium.

Despite all these protests, the European Union Parliament voted yesterday on a controversial nature protection law.

Accordingly, in the future, more trees will be planted in the EU and wetlands and rivers will return to their natural state. According to the announcement of the Parliament, the majority of the members of the European Union Parliament voted on the relevant nature protection law on Tuesday. Accordingly, the state of nature in the European Union must be improved, because more than 80% of European habitats are in a bad state. Considers the relationship between nature conservation and agriculture. The association criticizes the fact that there are broad requirements and general objectives for member states in the shadow of the law. Protests with tractors

In this situation, Jochen Kopelke, the Federal President of the German Police Union (GdP) discussed these protests across Europe in a conversation and talked about The recent protests of angry farmers in Brussels claimed: these protests in Brussels were an attack on democracy. The intensity, violence, and dangers associated with these actions have targeted constitutional institutions, and it was notable in Germany that Green Party events were canceled due to these protests in particular. He claimed that if (in the shadow of these protests) political meetings are stopped and other democratic processes are not possible, this is an attack on our political system and parliamentarism.

Referring to the coming of tractors to the streets during these protests, this security official in Germany said: Yes, these heavy machines are a great danger even in everyday life and cause accidents including serious injuries or death. When these circumstances add up to a demonstration with an angry crowd starting to get restless, things quickly get dangerous. That is why we need to at least limit and ban these vehicles in demonstrations. They do not belong there.

According to him, in principle, the police can deal with such gatherings. He added: “We have tactics, special units and special capabilities with which the police carry out their mission.” The police criticized this issue.

He said in another part of his speech: At most, we increasingly realize that certain environments and groups to each They join these gatherings and infiltrate the protests. In general, however, freedom of assembly is turning into creativity. I think in the last five years we’ve pretty much seen it all: people glued to the road sitting in tractors, flying into stadiums in airplanes. We saw demonstrations under water and demonstrations on boats. This presents enormous challenges to the police authorities.

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