Along with their counterparts in other European nations, Spanish farmers staged a traffic blockade on Tuesday on many of the nation’s major roads to express their disapproval of excessive expenses, red tape, and competition from non-EU countries, reports RTE.
Vice president of ASAJA, one of the biggest agricultural groups in Spain, Donaciano Dujo told national station TVE, “With different shades, in the whole European Union, we have the same problems.”
Although ASAJA and other groups had planned for protests starting on Thursday, traffic officials reported that on Tuesday, a large number of farmers took to the highways with their tractors, causing traffic jams throughout the nation, from Seville and Granada in the south to Girona close to the French border.
Tractors were observed assembling in Girona before to the protest day, some of them holding signs that said “without farmers there is no food”, reports RTE.
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