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Added on the 17/03/2024 13:30:33 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
About 150 tractors are blocking access to the A6 motorway at Villabe, some 40 km (25 miles) south of Paris. Farmers all over France are intensifying their protest ahead of further government announcements due later today. IMAGES
Dozens of French farmers are driving their tractors on the A7 motorway in the south of France to block it off traffic and put pressure on the government to come out with helpful measures The A7 motorway is closed from Orange to Montelimar with passenger cars and transport lorries forced to exit it. IMAGES
Farmers use tractors to block roads in Stary Konik, just east of Warsaw, Poland, to protest against EU climate measures and imports from Ukraine. IMAGES
Hundreds of tractors block streets around the EU's headquarters in Brussels as ministers met to seek ways to streamline farming rules and red tape that have fuelled protests around the bloc. IMAGES