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French farmers were on Tuesday maintaining roadblocks on key highways into Paris for a second day, increasing pressure on the government for more concessions in an intensifying standoff.Ecologists meanwhile fear more concessions from the government could undermine its environmental pledges. burs/jh/sjw/yad
Jeremy Clarkson has thrown his weight behind French farmers who are currently besieging Paris, wishing them “good luck” in a message entirely in French.
Protests by angry farmers spread across Europe on Tuesday as the French government scrambled to placate agriculture workers who have blocked motorways and launched convoys of tractors toward Paris.
Some 1,000 farmers with hundreds of vehicles blocked key roads into Paris for a second day, with some sleeping in their tractors overnight.
Protests by angry farmers spread across Europe on Tuesday as the French government scrambled to placate agriculture workers who have blocked motorways and launched convoys of tractors toward Paris.