A large group of French farmers parked their tractors at the A9 motorway toll booth and blocked traffic, protesting against European standards and demanding higher wages.
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Dozens of French farmers They blocked traffic On Monday they protested against European standards on a highway outside Perpignan and demanded higher wages. A hundred tractors were parked in front of the toll booth on the A9 motorway. At a press conference in Paris, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he had instructed local authorities to do so They will not send police forces to break up the demonstration. “I want to assure you of my political support,” Darmanin told reporters. The growing anger of farmers, some of whom have already taken action to express their anger frustrationemerges as the first big one Challenge the new government of President Emmanuel Macron. Hours before Monday's meeting with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, FNSEA union leader Arnaud Rousseau said that “there will be a certain number.” protests on Monday, all week and for as long as necessary.” The meeting with Attal comes after the French Agriculture Minister announced the postponement of one Reform package postponed for a long time.
“We do not plan to send police to disperse the protesters. In any case, these are the instructions that I gave to the Governor and the Director General of the Gendarmerie, because there is no damage in this area, and I trust the Government and the important work it is doing with farmers who are struggling in their working lives, and I would like to give them my political support. I encourage you to do so respect public property. “This applies to the vast majority of farmers,” says Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister.
Protests by farmers and transport professionals in other European countries
Similar problems have prompted farmers in other European countries to take action. Have groups of countless tractors traffic came to a standstill Farmers protested in Germany and Romania, as well as in the Netherlands and Poland. Romanian farmers and transport companies are not giving up their demands, they explain unsatisfied with the measures announced by the government and they protest On the roads and highways for the thirteenth day in a row. On the outskirts of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, transport operators and farmers continue their demonstrations. Several dozen trucks and tractors were still parked on the side of the European Route 85 in the city of Afumați.
The protesters say they had no reason to go to Parliament in Constitution Square, where a “planned rally” was announced, approved by the Bucharest City Council. It was the second day of the rally and no one showed up in front of the Romanian Parliament. That's what the demonstrators claim will stay in the Outskirts of Bucharest until your requests are approved. Several dozen transporters formed a picket line at the entrance to the port of Constanța Sud-Agigea. Are unsatisfied with the Rates that they have to pay, and they complain about having to pay wait a long time are not allowed to enter the terminal and that no services are available to them. So they don't have that Parkneither have a showercompared to similar infrastructure facilities abroad.
Romania's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Florin Barbu, announced on Monday in a debate with farmers in Târgu Mures that he would demand this resignation by the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski. A proposal that he wanted to implement this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers of the municipal block.