2024-02-03 16:36:37
The mobilization of European farmers demanding an improvement in their income continued on Saturday, but unevenly, with demonstrations taking place in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, where peasants announced their imminent arrival in Rome. In Romania and France, on the other hand, the movement ran out of steam and farmers in these two countries stopped their protest movement.
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“We will go to Rome, all together, all of Italy” of farmers, said one of the demonstrators, Felice Antonio Monfeli, without specifying the date. “With this protest we expect the government to give us answers, personally,” said another protester, Domenico Chiergi.
Italian farmers have been demanding an audience with the government of ultraconservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for days, without having received a response so far.
In Germanyseveral hundred farmers on tractors, opposed to a plan to reduce subsidies for diesel, disrupted access to Frankfurt airport, the most important in the country, on Saturday until the beginning of the afternoon , said the city police.
Around midday, the police estimated that 400 tractors were taking part in the demonstration, while the Hessian state farmers’ association counted up to a thousand.
First event in Switzerland
Switzerland experienced its first farmers’ demonstration on Saturday, with a procession of around thirty tractors parading through the streets of Geneva to express the “revolt” and the demands of Swiss farmers.
In Spain, the three main agricultural unions announced Friday that they were continuing their mobilization following a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture. A series of demonstrations are planned in the coming weeks in the country, including February 13 in Barcelona.
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Farmers’ unions denounce “a growing frustration and unease” in the agricultural sector in Spain, the leading European country exporting fruit and vegetables.
French farmers, who had given the starting signal for this vast protest movement, had lifted most of their roadblocks on Friday, the day after announcements made by the French government concerning global aid of 400 million euros and the “pausing” a pesticide reduction plan.
But smaller actions continue. On Saturday, for example, a supermarket was blocked in Var (south), while farmers dumped manure in front of two hypermarkets in Indre-et-Loire (center), where they “checked” products to verify their origin. and labeling.
“Fed up”
In an attempt to extinguish the anger which was gaining ground on the continent, the European Commission on Thursday promised measures to defend the “legitimate interests” of EU farmers, in particular by reducing the “administrative burden” of the criticized agricultural policy commune (PAC).
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European policy too complex, incomes too low, inflation, foreign competition, accumulation of standards, soaring fuel prices: the demands of European farmers are essentially identical in all countries.
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