After three weeks of mobilisations, the protests of farmers in Spain do not stop , as in the early hours of the morning they blocked the main road connecting to France, the AP 7 motorway, near Pontos (Girona) with columns of tractors. , informs the Catalan Traffic Service (Sct).
Slowdowns and road blocks are also recorded on the N II, near the towns of Vilamalia al Far d'Empordà, Viladesens and Orriols, all close to the French border and on the main transit arteries for goods trucks from the peninsula towards central Europe .
Today's farmers' protests, which continue despite yesterday's key meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels yesterday, are organized by the Uniò de Pagesos, the main agrarian organization in Catalonia, which has called for three days of mobilization in the region. And by the main organizations in the sector at national level (Asaja, Coag and Upa), which have convened the "tractoradas", tractor parades in other Iberian regions.
(Unioneonline/vl)