Farmers' strike in Madrid, live | A hundred tractors and thousands of protesters plan to occupy the center of Madrid. Today's mobilization culminates a calendar of more than 40 events that have dotted the Spanish geography in recent weeks.

EU ministers are facing a key meeting to make decisions to address this wave of discontent that has spread, to a greater or lesser extent, to several European countries. The European Commission proposed a battery of short and medium-term measures to alleviate the administrative burden on farmers.