On Sunday, thousands of Spanish farmers demonstrated in Madrid with tractors once more to voice their disapproval of EU agricultural policies and demand higher pricing for their produce.The farmers contend that their products are more expensive than imports from outside the EU because to the EU’s financial burdensome environmental and other laws.
Following the announcement on Friday of the EU’s proposed legislative reforms to loosen the Common Agricultural Policy’s (CAP) environmental regulations, farmers marched from the Ministry of Ecological Transition to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Tractors primarily from Madrid, Castilla y Leon, and Castilla La Mancha, led by their trade union, carried banners that read, “We are not delinquents,” as they were accompanied by horns and whistles.
“It is as if they want to cut off our necks,” the AFP news agency quoted Marcos Baldominos as saying about his vehicle which was adorned with a mock guillotine.
“We are being suffocated by European rules,” the farmer from Pozo de Guadalajara, 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Madrid, added.
EU President Ursula von der Leyen stated that Friday’s concessions were intended to relax compliance with certain environmental regulations; nevertheless, the Union of Unions claimed that the concessions did not go far enough.
