Scores of French farmers barricaded roads and motorways on Wednesday (8 February) in protest against a planned reduction in EU farm subsidies. The producers from the Occitanie region in the south-west of France blocked roads with hay bales, farm waste and flaming tyres around France’s fourth city, Toulouse, and the nearby town of Montauban. See also: French farmers issue legal threat over glyphosate ‘inaction’ A railway line between Toulouse and Narbonne was also blocked, along with several main roads around […]
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