Farmers The rural revolt threatens the cities without dialogue with the Government: "You are not going to have enough police to stop us"
Rural crisis The calendar of official farmers' protests begins with the 'independents' now in the big cities
Thousands of
farmers
blocked roads this Wednesday and arrived in the center of
Barcelona
to protest against European agricultural policy and the precarious situation of the sector. This Thursday it seems that there will be problems again in many parts of Spain and there are already road closures in
Navarra
and problems in the center and the entrances to Barcelona.
Become the epicenter of the protests, in Barcelona more than
2,000 tractors
converged throughout Wednesday near the headquarters of the Catalan regional government in a chorus of honking horns. A group of them has chosen to spend the night in the city in the cabins of their tractors, equipped with sleeping bags and warming themselves in improvised bonfires.
The protesters, organized by WhatsApp, demand that the requirements of European environmental policies be relaxed and that trade agreements with third countries include clauses so that their crops are grown under the same conditions as in the EU.
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8:45
Problems on Barcelona buses
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) is informing its users that the concentration of
tractors
is affecting the bus lines on the section of Gran Via between Passeig de Gràcia and Roger de Llúria street, and on Avenida Diagonal, between Doctor Marañón and the Francesc Macià square in the direction of Besòs.
The fifty farmers concentrated in Gran Via, from central Catalonia, plan to hold an assembly this morning to decide whether they will travel to the Parliament, where they hope to be received by the president of the Catalan chamber, Anna Erra.
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8:32
Farmers will cut the highways this Thursday as they pass through the city of Salamanca
The representatives of the agricultural professional organizations calling for the mobilization scheduled for this Thursday in Salamanca have announced that they will travel with their tractors and other vehicles to the city, where they plan to read a manifesto on Gran Vía, together with the Government Subdelegation, and they have advanced that they will then move to the different accesses to the highways to cut "with or without permits."
The objective is to "draw attention" to the situation experienced by professionals in the field, as outlined by those involved in a press conference, in which they announced this Thursday's mobilization.
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8:10
The agrarian organizations of Salamanca call for a "tractorada" for February 8
The agrarian organizations Asaja, Coag, Upa and Uccl of Salamanca have called for a
"tractorada"
on February 8, which will begin from five different points in the province to head "in columns" towards the capital and end "uninterruptedly" by the A-62, in the section that connects the N-630 junction at the Helmántico roundabout with the N-620 junction at the Buenos Aires roundabout.
The march, called for 9:00 a.m., will be "the launch of mobilizations to demand an ambitious shock plan that includes measures both within the European Union, as well as the Government of Spain and the autonomous communities."
The five starting points, according to information from the organizations and collected by Europa Press, will be Topas, on the A-66; Pedrosillo el Ralo, on A-62; Peñaranda de Bracamonte, on A-50; La Maya, on A-66; and Aldehuela de la Bóveda, on A-62).
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7:30
A truck burns in Antequera during farmers' protests
A truck burned on Wednesday night in Antequera (Málaga) during the
farmers' protests
, in which security forces charged against the protesters, as police sources have informed EFE.
The fire occurred next to the logistics center of the Mercadona company, located in the Antequera industrial estate, around 10:15 p.m. and was extinguished around midnight after the intervention of firefighters from the Malaga Provincial Consortium.
A significant number of people remained concentrated next to those Mercadona facilities after midnight this Thursday in the presence of riot agents.
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7:00
A group of farmers spent the night on their tractors in Barcelona
Some of the 2,000
farmers
who arrived in Barcelona this Wednesday to protest the situation in the sector have chosen to spend the night in the city in the cabins of their tractors, equipped with sleeping bags and warming themselves in improvised bonfires.
After the meeting held this afternoon at the Palau de la Generalitat with the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, and the Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, David Mascort, the farmers headed towards their vehicles, parked in the center of the city, to decide together with their companions whether they would stay in Barcelona or leave, in territorial assemblies that are still underway.
However, the bulk of the
farmers
consulted by EFE were in favor of spending the night in Barcelona to take advantage of the echo gained by the protest, although there were doubts about how to continue the day on Thursday, so that it did not become merely a trip. return and served to give continuity to the mobilization.
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