Farmers erect dams border with Germany – The World

Dams to German and Spanish borders to control foreign trucks farmers kept the pressure on Sunday evening July 26 and their actions could extend Monday

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After a series of emergency meetings and agreements this week to raise the price of beef, pork and milk, farmers want to denounce the “distortions competition “ in their favor their foreign counterparts. Alsatian farmers have erected roadblocks on Sunday night at the border to stop trucks coming across the Rhine in charge of food products.

The cars go, no trucks

Venus with tractors, they took up from 22 hours in six road crossings between France and Germany, five bridges, for an action that is expected to continue at least until Monday afternoon, at the initiative of the FDSEA and the Young Farmers of the Lower Rhine.

“We’re missing all the cars and everything that comes from France ‘, assured Frank Sander , president of the FDSEA of the Lower Rhine, claiming over a thousand farmers, “of all the agricultural world, not just farmers” , would participate in these blocking actions by relaying.

The foreign lorries arriving from Germany and transporting agricultural commodities or food products, however, are “blocked” , he said. Following a meeting with the government scheduled Monday at the Prefecture in Strasbourg will decide the representatives of farmers or not they pursue their actions blockages.

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“The French are willing to pay more”

In the South west, a hundred farmers ransacked Sunday night dozens of trucks from Spain on a highway, threatening to unload the meat or fruit for the French market if they were.

Farmers and breeders have established with ten tractors dams on the A 64, after the toll Montrejeau, Saint-Gaudens between Lannemezan, causing three to four kilometers from cap, said Guillaume Darrouy Secretary General Young Farmers Haute-Garonne.

Meanwhile, the president of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin, said in Le Parisien / Today in France on Monday that “within days come, following the agreement just reached with the government, prices must go up “. According to the head of the agricultural union chief, “the French are willing to pay more, that’s encouraging,”

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