Hundreds of Tractors Arrive in Madrid to Protest Mercosur and Cap Cuts
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About 1,500 farmers, with 348 tractors, are protesting Wednesday, according to the Iberian government's data, in the centre of Madrid, facing the trade agreement between the EU and the countries of the South American Mercosur bloc and the reduction of funds within the framework of...
Hundreds of farmers and ranchers from different parts of Spain will arrive this morning in Madrid on board their tractors in a new demonstration of the strength of the...
Some 8,000 farmers and ranchers, accompanied by some 500 tractors from all over Spain, convened by the Union of Farmers and Livestock Unions and the National Union of Independent Primary Sector Associations (Unaspi) have taken to the streets of Madrid in protest to show their dissatisfaction with the cuts in the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the recent EU-Mercosur trade agreement, as well as with the loss of profitability that is l…
The tractors entered Madrid in four columns from the four points of cordial towards the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of Spain in the centre of the city, and the protest is aimed at the trade agreement with Mercosul (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia), which farmers say to exploit European producers because of the European rules and regulations they are subject to.
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