Photos: Simultaneous Tractor Protests Grip Europe From East to West

 

Associated Press — Snow-dusted tractors lined up outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and nighttime protests in Romania marked by vivid national flags have become markers of a farmer protest movement across Europe. Listen To Story

 

The biggest demonstrations have been seen in France, where farmers blocked highways around Paris with their tractors, but the dayslong protests have spread across the European Union, highlighting deep-seated grievances within the agricultural sector.

 

Gendarmes and armored vehicles face tractors on a blocked highway, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Farmers blocked more traffic arteries across Belgium, France and Italy on Wednesday, as they sought to disrupt trade at major ports and other economic lifelines. Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors advanced toward European Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard by EU leaders at a summit Thursday in Brussels, Belgium. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

 

 

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