with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin. and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain, for the third day in a row with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona and in smaller cities all over the country. and renewed eu talks on a south america trade deal have raised anxieties further. translation: we are tired of working and getting underpaid. we are fed up that they won t let us do what we want to do in the fields. they force us to plant what they want us to plant. they force us to use the herbicide that they want. and apart from that, we are being underpaid. translation: we want to be left in peace to plant crops in the fields when it s their time, and not when they tell us, and to stop the price rises. translation: the agriculture business is going badly, - and we all need to demonstrate farmers, truckers,
and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia, on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain, for the third day in a row with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona, and in smaller cities all over the country. jos ubels is a cattle farmer in the netherlands and vice president of the farmers defence force. he told us why he s unhappy with the eu s agricultural rules. well, first of all, of course, it s the administration, bureaucracy. many people don t know, but the european union tells us what to sow, what to harvest on our fields and when to sow it and when to harvest it and they are checking this with live satellite imagery every three days all over europe. so we re being watched by european union from the satellites every three days. they invent legislation to prevent climate change or whatever, but they don t invent rules that change things for the better. we, as practicing farme
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ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a newborn Blonde d Aquitaine calf, the latest addition to his herd of over 300 dairy cattle.
Europe’s farmers are angry, and staging their biggest protests in half a century. Far right groups are egging them on, and hoping to ride their anger to new success in