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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday tried to soothe the anger of protesting farmers by calling on the European Union to regulate agricultural imports from Ukraine and loosen farming rules. Macron, speaking on a visit to Sweden as farmers parked tractors across highways in France and set ablaze bales of hay on the road to Toulouse airport, also rejected a draft trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries in its current form. The French protests follow si

French farmers choked off major motorways around Paris on Monday, threatening to blockade the capital in an intensifying standoff with the government over working conditions.Armoured police vehicles were deployed to Rungis on Monday after some farmers threatened to "occupy" it.

A car rammed into a roadblock put up by protesting farmers in southwestern France on Tuesday, killing a woman and seriously injuring her husband and teenage daughter stationed there.The woman who was killed was a member of the powerful FNSEA farmers union which has been leading nationwide protests, as are her husband and daughter.

Romania’s government announced the first aid package for farmers and truckers who continue to stage mass protests at Ukrainian border crossings, Romanian PM Marcel Čolaku said in a video message on Jan. 18.

Protesting farmers booed and jeered German Finance Minister Christian Lindner at a large demonstration in central Berlin on Monday. Lindner took to the podium to address the angry farmers, who are protesting government proposals to cut agricultural diesel fuel subsidies, but was shouted down by the crowd. He was only able to begin his speech after Joachim Rukwied, the leader of a major agricultural lobby group, appealed to the crowd. The assembled farmers nevertheless continued to accompany his