Farmers set up roadblocks to the German and Spanish borders – The World

After a week of blockades and punches shares for a revaluation of the price of meat and milk, farmers have maintained pressure throughout the weekend and continued Monday at dawn.

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After a series of emergency meetings and agreements last week to raise the price of beef, pork and milk, farmers intend to denounce the “distortions of competition” in their favor their foreign counterparts.

Alsatian farmers and erected roadblocks on Sunday night at the border to stop trucks responsible for agri-food products from across the Rhine.

Meeting scheduled at the prefecture

Venus with tractors, they took up from 22 hours 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 let pass all the cars and everything that comes from France ‘, assured Frank Sander, president of the FDSEA of the Lower Rhine, claiming that more than a thousand farmers, “of all the agricultural world, not just farmers” , would participate in these blocking actions in relays.

The foreign lorries arriving from Germany and carrying agricultural raw materials and 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 a dozen tractors, dams on the A64 motorway, after the toll Montrejeau, Saint-Gaudens between Lannemezan, causing 3-4 km from cap, said Guillaume Darrouy, General Secretary of Young Farmers of Haute-Garonne.

Meanwhile, the president of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin believes in Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France Monday “in the coming days, following the agreement just reached with the government, prices must go up” . According to the head of the main agricultural union, “the French are willing to pay more, that’s encouraging,”

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