US EditionSpanish Farmers and Farmers Retake Protests Against Mercosur Agreement and Cut Several Roads · Global Voices
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For the second day in a row, the traffic promises difficult in Catalonia due to the protests of the farmers against the free trade agreement between the European Union and the countries of the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay), which from time to time has become the black beast of the agricultural sector for the opening up to a competition that they consider unfair. Since yesterday, and coinciding with an 'express' meeting …
The worst is in Catalonia, where protesters threaten an indefinite stop
Like French farmers, Catalans denounce the Mercosur agreement with the European Union, but also the cuts provided for in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The day of mobilizations has ended with several routes affected such as the AP-7, the A-2, the C-16 and the N-260Dozens of farmers cut with their tractors the AP-7 in Girona against the agreement with Mercosur A seminar of tractors that have been carrying out the whole day of Thursday protesting against the EU agreement with Mercosur has decided to carry out a "stronger action" and have cut the C-16 road with the intention of spending the night …
Farmers block the roads of several cities in Spain with mobilizations that replicate in France, Greece and Germany.
In fact, in this region the agrarian association Revolta Pagesa, in unit of action with Unaspi, made the first cuts at 3:00 a.m. and there are already up to ten points of the Catalan road network affected by cuts in one direction or another or in both directions. At this time the tractors in the AP-7 -in several points of the province of Girona like Vilamorell and Vilademuls in the sense of France - stand out, also in the A-2 at the height of Go…
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