EU governments respond to mass farmer protests

Europe has been rocked this week by a wave of protests and road blockages, in France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Greece, as farmers protest issues from falling sales prices and increasing costs to heavy regulation and perceived unfair competition from outside the EU.

Gert Ickx at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges said that farmers had blocked the roads into and out of the

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