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The countryside has joined the fight for land with hundreds of farmers protesting in Spain. “We do not sell the field, we defend it” is one of the different slogans that can be read on the banners attached to the tractors, as we see in these snapshots captured in Cuenca (Castilla – La Mancha) and Gurb (Osona) for Las Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia.
In fact, tractors have become the symbol and tool of the farmers’ protest in Spain. Other slogans are: “I don’t want subsidies, I want them to let me work” or “Without the fields and livestock, the table is empty.”
In one of the series of photographs we can see how farmers have cut the C-17 and C-25 as they pass through Gurb using a tractor.
It is not only in Spain that there are demonstrations in the agricultural sector. The protests travel throughout the territory of the European Union, in Germany and passing through France, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands, where a year and a half ago the first large mobilizations against community environmental policies and the Green Deal began.
Faced with this avalanche of reactions among EU farmers, the European Commission has proposed to the Twenty-Seven to set a goal of reducing emissions by 90% in 2040 compared to 1990 levels, as an intermediate step towards the desired climate neutrality. reach in 2050, but possible cut targets for farmers have disappeared from the text at the last minute.
In Spain, this Wednesday one of the hottest points of the protest will be experienced in Catalonia. Farmers threaten to blockade Barcelona. Several assemblies agreed on Tuesday, on the first day of protests in the countryside, to expand their protests and head with their tractors towards the capital to reach the headquarters of the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, the Government delegation or the headquarters of the EU in the city.
