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Added on the 18/05/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
The United Nations calls for an independent investigation into the deaths of at least 23 people after about 2,000 migrants tried to cross from Morocco into Spain last week. SOUNDBITE
Dozens of migrants queue at Spain's Ceuta border to return to Morocco after an unprecedented 8,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave earlier this week. Most of the arrivals are young men and teenagers, who swam to the beaches of Ceuta to find work and escape the grinding poverty, unemployment and hunger back home in Morocco which has been worsened by the Covid pandemic. IMAGES
French and Spanish farmers are blocking cross-border crossings in the Pyrenees in the run-up to the European elections in a bid to influence the vote and demand cheaper energy. IMAGES
French and Spanish farmers gather on their tractors in Biriatou, on the border between the two countries, with the aim of joining forces to make their demands heard, particularly at European level. IMAGES
Dozens of Spanish farmers block the AP-7 motorway linking Spain and France in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia with their tractors, as part of a string of protests against the difficulties facing the sector. Farmers across Europe have been protesting for weeks over what they say are excessively restrictive environmental rules, competition from cheap imports from outside the European Union and low incomes. IMAGES
Driving at snail's pace down the motorway and amassing at the tollgates in Le Boulou, a few kilometres from the Spanish border, France's farmers show little sign of abandoning their protest despite government concessions in response to a movement that has spread nationwide and elsewhere in Europe. IMAGES