2024-01-22 17:24:11
Ahead of a meeting of agricultural associations with France’s new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Monday, protesting farmers extended their blockades in the country. Furthermore, several motorways were blocked near Toulouse in southern France on Monday, as the broadcaster France Info reported. In the region, access to the nuclear power plant in Golfech was also blocked by farmers, as the newspaper “La Dépêche du Midi” reported.
Farmers also occupied a toll booth on a highway near the Spanish border near Perpignan. There were also protests in Alsace on the German-French border near Lauterbourg. French farmers, together with German farmers, blocked the bridge on a country road that connects Germany and the A35 motorway on the left bank of the Rhine towards Strasbourg, as the newspaper “Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace” reported.
Numerous problems have accumulated among farmers: for example, the water supply for their farms in regions where persistent drought is increasingly becoming a burden. As in Germany, topics include the price of agricultural diesel, energy costs in general and the income situation of farmers as well as excessive regulations. The agricultural associations announced that they would continue their protests this week.
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